Bug 328683 – [app-crypt/pinentry-0.8.0] pinentry-curses hangs up via ssh

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Gabor Garami 2010-07-17 00:08:30 UTC]

The pinentry hangs up when i tried use gpg via 'git tag' command.
I unset GPG_AGENT_INFO environment variable, but the problem is still here.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Log in to any computer via ssh
2. unset GPG_AGENT_INFO
3. try use any program what uses gpg like "git tag -s"
4. requesting passphrase will hang up and you cannot do anything except Ctrl-C

Pinentry puts info message (3x):

pinentry-curses: no LC_CTYPE known - assuming UTF-8

This bug makes gpg unusable via ssh.

[Comment 1 Gabor Garami 2010-07-17 00:09:34 UTC]

Created attachment 239111 [details]
emerge --info output

[Comment 2 Gabor Garami 2010-07-17 00:11:06 UTC]

Pinentry and gnupg compiled by these flags:

[ebuild   R   ] app-crypt/pinentry-0.8.0  USE="-caps -gtk -ncurses -qt4 -static" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.15  USE="bzip2 nls -adns -caps -doc -ldap -openct -pcsc-lite (-selinux) -smartcard -static" 0 kB


* Info: problem independent from ncurses USE flag on pientry.

[Comment 3 Gabor Garami 2010-07-17 00:40:13 UTC]

Similar bug here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=568375

[Comment 4 Fabian Groffen 2012-01-02 19:14:13 UTC]

You have to set GPG_TTY to the output of tty as mandated by the gpg docs, see http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Common-Problems.html

[Comment 5 Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) 2012-12-22 00:41:29 UTC]

Please reopen if you have further information, regarding behaviour with comment#4 applied.