gpg-agent "unknown value for WHAT"

[Charly Avital]

David Savage wrote the following on 10/20/09 10:41 AM:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm attempting to generate a 4096bit RSA key using gnupg 2.0.12 and
> gpg-agent 2.0.11 but I'm getting an error message prior to entering
> the passphrase:
> 
> "gpg: problem with the agent: Not supported"

Hi David,


IMO, the problems resides with your installation of gnupg2 via Darwin Ports.

Darwin Ports installs a version of pinentry (required for gpg-agent to
function) that is not compatible with MacOSX.

If you want to install a functioning gnupg2 for MacOSX, with a Mac
native pinentry.app, you might want to try MacGPG2 2.0.12
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/macgpg2/>
<http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2009-June/036724.html>,
that can be downloaded from:
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/macgpg2/files/macgpg2/>

> Having done a little digging I decided to enable --debug-all to see if
> this would shed any light on the problem - unfortunately the error
> message means very little on first inspection - hence this mail.
> 
> "gpg-agent[66760.6] DBG: -> ERR 67109144 parameter conflict - unknown
> value for WHAT"
> 
> I've included the full session output below with certain fields XXXXX'd out...
> 
> _Environment_info_
> Mac OS X 10.5.8
> gnupg2 installed via darwin ports

That should be the problem.
> 
> _Non_standard_entries_in_"~/.gnupg/gpg.conf"_
> personal-digest-preferences SHA512
> cert-digest-algo SHA512
> default-preference-list SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 SHA224 AES256 AES192 AES
> CAST5 ZLIB BZIP2 ZIP Uncompressed
> 
> Any help or suggestions of where to look further appreciated.

Please see above.
[...]

> gpg: problem with the agent: Not supported

Ditto, Darwin Ports does not install gpg-agent with the required
pinentry that will function under MacOSX

Charly
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