bug#43035: gpg-agent can't find pinentry with linux-libre-5.8.3

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 03:33:34PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 10:20:36PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
>> > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 04:14:59PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 12:45:45PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
>> > > > This bug report sounds absurd to me but I don't see anything else
>> > > > obvious that changed. I reconfigured with (kernel linux-libre) and the
>> > > > gpg-agent couldn't find any pinentry. I even tried killing gpg-agent 
>> > > > and
>> > > > manually launching it and giving it the path to pinentry. I then 
>> > > > changed
>> > > > to (kernel linux-libre-5.7) and used the same commit to reconfigure and
>> > > > gpg-agent started working as expected again.
>> > > 
>> > > Weird! You should run gpg-agent with `strace -f` and see where it is
>> > > looking.
>> > 
>> > I've attached the strace from gpg-agent when I tried to run 'gpg -s'
>> > ^C+d. I'm not really sure what it could be but it looks like I should
>> > boot back into the 5.8.5 kernel generation and strace some more
>> > processes.
>> 
>> Okay, I'm still stumped. Next time use `strace -fv`, so that it doesn't
>> abbreviate useful information.
>
> I have a new one with 'strace -fv' where it still didn't work. Then I
> figured that maybe it was custom pinentry-efl so I removed that and
> switched to pinentry-efl and that didn't work. Then I removed that and
> installed pinentry-gnome3 and suddenly that worked. So it looks like
> it's pinentry-efl specific

Is it OK to close this issue then?  The title is rather misleading! :-)

Thanks,

Maxim