[mutt+gpg-agent+pinentry] command get_passphrase failed: Unknown system error

[Ed Schouten]

* Ed Schouten <ed at fxq.nl> wrote:
> Because sending email would also come in handy, I installed pinentry.
> After finally getting gpg-agent and pinentry up and running, I still
> can't send any email with Mutt.
> 
> When I compose a new message, which is signed by Mutt and press the 'y'
> button (send), I get a fancy pinentry dialog. For some reason, gpg-agent
> cannot figure out the passphrase. Mutt shows the following error:
> 
> | error signing data: Bad passphrase?
> 
> gpg-agent logs the following message:
> 
> | 2006-03-20 22:57:18 gpg-agent[62511] command get_passphrase failed: Unknown system error
> 
> I looked through the gpg-agent sourcecode and added some log_error()'s
> to it. A faulty return value is raised in the following piece of code in
> query.c, line 516:
> 
> |   assuan_begin_confidential (entry_ctx);
> |   rc = assuan_transact (entry_ctx, "GETPIN", getpin_cb, &parm, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
> |   if (rc)
> |     {
> |       xfree (parm.buffer);
> |       return unlock_pinentry (map_assuan_err (rc));
> |     }
> 
> assuan_transact() returns a non-zero value. I tried using the pinentry
> utility from the console, but GETPIN works okay. Is this a known issue?

It looks like I found the bug. I built the GTK2 version of the pinentry
application instead of the curses one and that one works fine. The bug
is probably in the pinentry curses code.

Yours,
-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at fxq.nl>
 WWW: http://g-rave.nl/
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