enigmail does not find gpg-agent in kde

[Waleed Hamra]

On 16/12/11 19:26, Andre Massing wrote:
> On 12/16/2011 06:03 PM, Waleed Hamra wrote:
>> On 16/12/11 16:48, Andre Massing wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi there!
>>>
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>>>
>>> Does anybody has any ideas or pointers where to start to
>>> investigate and to nail down that problem? Or has anybody
>>> experienced somehow similar problems? I could not find any bug
>>> report or question related to that issue...
>>>
>>> And, of course, any help, pointers etc. are very much
>>> appreciated!
>>>
>>> Cheers, Andre
>>>
> 
>> gpg-agent should be started by X when it starts. you should have a
>> file called:
> 
>> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent
> 
>> look for it, and see if it exists, this file is part of the
>> gnupg-agent package.
> 
> Yes, it exists and apt-file find /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent tells
> me the file is part of the gnupg-agent package as expected.
> Strangely, the gpg-agent starts i a gnome 3 session without any
> problems, and  corresponding environment variables as GPG_AGENT_INFO
> are set, not so in a KDE session. That is why I suspect that somehow
> the start up procedure in KDE does not involve (correctly) the
> gpg-agent..
> 
> 
>> another thing, what is the default login screen? kdm or gdm?
> 
> 
> I tried both and it failed in both.
> Thanks for the help so far.. Are there any other places I could check ...?
> 
> 

maybe its just an environment variable issue. is gpg-agent running?
check with:

ps -A | grep gpg-agent

-- 
Waleed K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Lead Technician at Illusion Computers Megastore

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