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

[Efraim Flashner]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 08:28:14PM -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
> 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! :-)
> 

Sure. I'm not even really sure what it's about right now. I assume the
problem is fixed.

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