Bug 599700

Summary:	mail-client/thunderbird-45.4.0: enigmail cannot find gpg
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Small_Penguin <dark.shadow>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Small_Penguin 2016-11-14 12:02:35 UTC

After updating to thunderbird-45.4.0, enigmail reports it cannot find the gpg binary. Pointing it to /usr/bin/gpg or /usr/bin/gpg2, it says that the chosen file is no valid gpg binary.

app-crypt/gnupg-2.1.15 (same with -r1)

Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2016-11-14 18:45:25 UTC

Thank you for the report. I fear we need more details to find the real cause. Perhaps it is an upstram bug, but lets see.

I could not reproduce this with 

mail-client/thunderbird-45.3.0
app-crypt/gnupg-2.1.15

What was your thunderbird version before the update?
Can you report if it works for you with mail-client/thunderbird-45.3.0, please?

Can you provide the log files from the installation, please?

Comment 2 Small_Penguin 2016-11-16 08:26:00 UTC

You are right, in thunderbird-45.3.0 enigmail works without problems. So it seems thunderbird-45.4.0 is at fault here.

Comment 3 Small_Penguin 2016-11-16 08:43:40 UTC

After closing and restarting thunderbird, the error occurred again. It definitely worked the first time because I successfully sent a (signed) test mail.

So maybe it is not a problem with the new thunderbird, but something else.

Comment 4 Small_Penguin 2016-11-16 09:11:43 UTC

I apologize. It turns out this is an user error. I had installed enigmail in my user profile in addition to the system-wide installation of enigmail.

After starting thunderbird for the first time after updating it, enigmail works. But then on the subsequent startups, the user-profile extension will take over and apparently it has a bug or is outdated, whatever.

I am closing this as resolved invalid.