I have a Gentoo VPS and I noticed (with htop) that I had multiple gpg-agent instances running. Namely, when I looked recently, I had 18 of them, all looking as follows: gpg-agent --homedir /tmp/<some random string> --use-standard-socket --daemon In a forum post (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=8461290#8461290), another user recalled having had the same issue, but for them it disappeared after a while. They linked it to emerge --sync calls. So I tried looking at htop output while doing an emerge --sync and indeed, gpg-agent instances were started and left running. I also saw a dirmngr instance referring to the same <some random string>, but that disappeared. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run emerge --sync Actual Results: gpg-agent instance started and left running Expected Results: gpg-agent started and stopped once its use is over
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 718066 ***
According to bug 718066, should be fixed with app-portage/gemato-14.4.
