Smartcard not initialized automatically on GnuPG 2.2.24

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2020 11:57:53 CET Heiko Carrasco via Gnupg-users 
wrote:
> I recently got the "new" version of GnuPG 2.2.24 through my distribution
> and noticed some form of bug together with my smartcard.

It's a regression. It has already been fixed. See below. You could ask your 
distribution to quickly update to GnuPG 2.2.25.

> When I attempt to use gpg to decrypt something I get the following
> error:
> $ gpg -d test.gpg
> gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit RSA key, ID 1632F70C0F463100, created
> 2015-08-24 "Heiko Carrasco <heiko.carrasco at yahoo.com>
> gpg: public key decryption failed: Invalid ID
> gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

>From the release notes for GnuPG 2.2.25 ([1]):
=====
Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.25
====================================

  * scd: Fix regression in 2.2.24 requiring gpg --card-status before
    signing or decrypting.  [#5065]
=====

Regards,
Ingo

[1] https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2020q4/000450.html
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