Re: Bug#345826: pinentry-gtk2: pinentry waits for input it can never read

Am 04.01.06 22:49 schrieb(en) Peter Eisentraut:
> This has been reported to the Debian bug tracking system.  Comments?

Maybe this is related: <http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2004-
October/021437.html>. My solution is to add the statement

<snip>
export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
</snip>

to my ~/.bashrc file.

Cheers, Albrecht.

> 
> > Package: pinentry-gtk2
> > Version: 0.7.2-3
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > When using pinentry from the console program without setting the  
> ttyname
> > OPTION pinentry waits forever for input it can never read because there
> > is no input available. I think this should not happen and pinentry
> should
> > abort with an error if it can not get the TTY for the input itself like
> > it does when it is directly started from the console.
[snipped more comments about this bug]

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