Bug 326985 – Could not start the gpg-agent program which is needed for your GnuPG version 2.0.15.

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 327099
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description thanasis 2010-07-05 13:41:46 UTC]

After upgrading to x11-plugins/enigmail-1.1.2
I get the following message in thunderbird (mail-client/thunderbird-3.1)
Could not start the gpg-agent program which is needed for your GnuPG version 2.0.15.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.upgrading to x11-plugins/enigmail-1.1.2
2.start thunderbird (mail-client/thunderbird-3.1)
Actual Results:  
Could not start the gpg-agent program which is needed for your GnuPG version 2.0.15.

[Comment 1 Fiona Klute 2010-07-05 14:04:49 UTC]

Same problem here. The message appears when loading a message, opening the enigmail preferences or enigmail's error console (almost every click in thunderbird). The enigmail console does not display anything.

[Comment 2 Jory A. Pratt 2010-07-05 14:59:50 UTC]

Check so ensure you have gpg-agent running as a daemon.

[Comment 3 thanasis 2010-07-05 15:29:05 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Check so ensure you have gpg-agent running as a daemon.
> 
I started the daemon manually (there was no need to do so before)
/usr/bin/gpg-agent --daemon
yet the result (problem remains). I get the same message.

[Comment 4 Fiona Klute 2010-07-05 15:57:34 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
With gpg-agent running, it works. Thanks! x11-plugins/enigmail-1.1.1 worked without this, though. Maybe add an einfo line or a change log entry? 

(In reply to comment #3)
Some environment variables need to be set so that enigmail can find the gpg-agent daemon. Just take a look at the gpg-agent manpage on how to start it. ;-)

[Comment 5 thanasis 2010-07-05 16:42:09 UTC]

Maybe the problem remains with x11-plugins/enigmail-1.1.2 and/or mail-client/thunderbird-3.1

[Comment 6 Jory A. Pratt 2010-07-18 15:30:13 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 327099 ***