gpg-agent doesn't detect a working instance of gpg-agent --daemon Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.gpg-agent --daemon 2.ps uax|grep gpg-a # to make sure it's running 3.gpg-agent Actual Results: gpg-agent: no gpg-agent running in this session Expected Results: inform that it found running instance emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.34-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_Dual_CPU_T3200_@_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r2, 3.1.2-r3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.4-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.34 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1 AdobeFlash-10" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -mtune=native -mssse3" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -mtune=native -mssse3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch prelink protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict strip unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirror.pw.edu.pl/ http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl" LC_ALL="pl_PL.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="pl" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/rion /var/lib/layman/efl /var/lib/layman/dagger" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apm autoipd avahi berkdb bluetooth branding brasero bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cleartype cli consolekit corefonts cracklib crypt cups curl cxx dbus dga dot dri dts dvd dvdr dvi embedded emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fontconfig fortran fts3 gdbm gif git gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk handbook iconv inotify ipv6 java6 jpeg kpathsea latex lcms ldap libnotify libsexy lm_sensors lua mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp2 mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib musicbrainz ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd pulseaudio python qt3support qt4 readline reflection resolvconf sasl session spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification subversion svg sysfs t1lib tcpd theora threads threadsafe tiff tk truetype udev unicode usb vorbis x264 xcb xml xorg xpm xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="pl" NETBEANS_MODULES="cnd ide ergonomics dlight harness nb" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I would say that your invocation of gpg-agent with --daemon is not enough. You are missing so export of important variables. I do the following in .xsession/.xinitrc: ----8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<------ gnupginf="${HOME}/.gpg-agent.info" if ( pgrep -u "${USER}" gpg-agent ); then eval `cat $gnupginf` eval `cut -d= -f1 $gnupginf | xargs echo export` else eval `gpg-agent --daemon --enable-ssh-support --write-env-file "${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info"` fi ----8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<------ Then I can check that the variables are set in any term: user@host ~ $ env | grep -E 'SSH|GPG' SSH_AGENT_PID=3297 GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/gpg-SimUkN/S.gpg-agent:3297:1 SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/gpg-EwMtgt/S.gpg-agent.ssh
I think there is a problem with gpg, not just my invocation - Thunderbird complains that it's unable to start gpg-agent required by GnuPG 2.0.15 each time I open/send email (followed by complaint about not being able to access Enigmail). I tried what you suggested and it doesn't work: # cat start_gpg gnupginf="${HOME}/.gpg-agent.info" if ( pgrep -u "${USER}" gpg-agent ); then eval `cat $gnupginf` eval `cut -d= -f1 $gnupginf | xargs echo export` else eval `gpg-agent --daemon --enable-ssh-support --write-env-file "${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info"` fi # bash start_gpg 2590 declare -x ANT_HOME="/usr/share/ant" declare -x COLORTERM="gnome-terminal" declare -x CONFIG_PROTECT="/usr/share/X11/xkb /var/lib/hsqldb /usr/share/config" declare -x CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gentoo-release /etc/sandbox.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/revdep-rebuild" declare -x CVS_RSH="ssh" declare -x DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-AYZFWkwHft,guid=12a1def813e1116b473a0b150000001c" declare -x DESKTOP="Enlightenment-0.17.0" declare -x DESKTOP_SESSION="enlightenment" declare -x DISPLAY=":0.0" declare -x EDITOR="/usr/bin/vim" declare -x E_BIN_DIR="/usr/bin" declare -x E_CONF_PROFILE="standard" declare -x E_DATA_DIR="/usr/share/enlightenment" declare -x E_IPC_SOCKET="/tmp/enlightenment-joszi/disp-:0.0-1823" declare -x E_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib" declare -x E_PREFIX="/usr" declare -x E_RESTART="1" declare -x E_SCALE="1.000" declare -x E_START="/usr/bin/enlightenment_start" declare -x E_START_TIME="1278848722.3" declare -x GCC_SPECS="" declare -x GDK_USE_XFT="1" declare -x GDMSESSION="enlightenment" declare -x GDM_LANG="pl_PL.UTF-8" declare -x GDM_XSERVER_LOCATION="local" declare -x HG="/usr/bin/hg" declare -x HOME="/home/joszi" declare -x INFOPATH="/usr/share/info:/usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.20.1/info:/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.4/info" declare -x JAVAC="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm/bin/javac" declare -x JAVACC_HOME="/usr/share/javacc/" declare -x JAVA_HOME="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm" declare -x JDK_HOME="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm" declare -x LANG="pl_PL.UTF-8" declare -x LANGUAGE="pl_PL.UTF-8" declare -x LC_ALL="pl_PL.UTF-8" declare -x LC_MESSAGES="pl_PL.UTF-8" declare -x LESS="-R -M --shift 5" declare -x LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s" declare -x LOGNAME="joszi" declare -x LS_COLORS="rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.tlz=01;31:*.txz=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.lz=01;31:*.xz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svgz=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.flv=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.cgm=01;35:*.emf=01;35:*.axv=01;35:*.anx=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01;35:*.pdf=00;32:*.ps=00;32:*.txt=00;32:*.patch=00;32:*.diff=00;32:*.log=00;32:*.tex=00;32:*.doc=00;32:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:*.axa=00;36:*.oga=00;36:*.spx=00;36:*.xspf=00;36:" declare -x MANPATH="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.20.1/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.4/man:/etc/java-config/system-vm/man/:/usr/share/postgresql-9.0/man:/opt/vmware/player/man" declare -x OLDPWD declare -x OPENGL_PROFILE="xorg-x11" declare -x ORBIT_SOCKETDIR="/tmp/orbit-joszi" declare -x PAGER="/usr/bin/less" declare -x PANTS="ON" declare -x PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.4.4:/opt/vmware/player/bin" declare -x PRELINK_PATH_MASK="/usr/lib64/libfreebl3.so:/usr/lib64/libnssdbm3.so:/usr/lib64/libsoftokn3.so" declare -x PWD="/home/joszi" declare -x RUBYOPT="-rauto_gem" declare -x R_HOME="/usr/lib64/R" declare -x SHELL="/bin/bash" declare -x SHLVL="2" declare -x SSH_AGENT_PID="1841" declare -x SSH_AUTH_SOCK="/tmp/ssh-TocQwF1823/agent.1823" declare -x TERM="xterm" declare -x USER="joszi" declare -x USERNAME="joszi" declare -x WINDOWID="18874371" declare -x WINDOWPATH="7" declare -x XAUTHORITY="/home/joszi/.Xauthority" declare -x XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="/etc/xdg" declare -x XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/usr/share/gdm" declare -x XDG_SESSION_COOKIE="6afe20cb37d18d56aaa931134ad4545b-1278848721.273875-1239339625" # gpg-agent gpg-agent: no gpg-agent running in this session
(your GPG_AGENT_INFO does not seem so be exported, something is not right with the way you use "my" script I think). Fortunately, the issue your are experimenting with gpg-agent and enigmail is unrelated, and has already been reported in bgo and a fix has been provided both in bgo, then a better one upstream. bug 327099#c16
Thanks for pointing me to solution of enigmail problem. The problem with gpg-agent is GPG_AGENT_INFO not getting exported.
