Bug 161846

Summary:	mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1 w/ USE=crypt requires app-crypt/pinentry w/ USE=gtk
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	William Keaney <keaneyw>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description William Keaney 2007-01-13 00:47:34 UTC

If mail-client/evolution is built with crypt support, it calls app-crypt/pinentry to request the user's password when using the secret key for signing.  If app-crypt/pinentry is built without 'gtk' USE flag, the user will never see the prompt and evolution will lock up; this freeze spreads to the rest of the system as evolution and pinentry use increasing amounts of resources.
Rebuilding app-crypt/pinentry _with_ the 'gtk' USE flag allows the pinentry dialog to come up.  Not installing pinentry causes evolution to fail to sign messages, stating that there have been 3 unsuccessful attempts to enter the user's gpg password.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build mail-client/evolution with 'crypt' USE flag
2. Build app-crypt/pinentry without 'gtk' USE flag
3. Try to send a gpg-signed message

Actual Results:  
evolution locks up; a pinentry process can be seen in 'top', but no dialog comes up.  Overall system responsiveness is noticeably degraded.

Expected Results:  
Perhaps the 'crypt' USE flag should cause evolution to depend on a gtk-enabled pinentry?

Comment 1 William Keaney 2007-01-13 01:20:07 UTC

On further thought, the 'qt' use flag should work, too.
Perhaps the evolution ebuild should fail and prompt the user to pick one or both flags.

Comment 2 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-26 03:28:55 UTC

Hmm... evo doesn't call pinentry itself.  It legitimately doesn't have a dep on it.  The question is, how does pinentry get called?  gnupg doesn't have a dep on pinentry that I can see...

Comment 3 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-02-01 03:34:08 UTC

Okay, I was wrong.  gnupg does dep on pinentry.

Comment 4 William Keaney 2007-02-14 02:11:10 UTC

It looks like this is being addressed in bug 160302, which predates this one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 160302 ***