PGP / engimail no longer working in Saucy

[Lars Noodén]

On 06/23/2013 12:19 PM, Leszek Lesner wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 23. Juni 2013, 12:11:50 schrieb Lars Noodén:
>> On 06/21/2013 01:42 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>> On 2013-06-21 12:31, Lars Noodén wrote:
>>>> Today I'm running into trouble when trying to decrypt or sign messages
>>>> with PGP.  Previously engimail worked fine for Thunderbird.  Today it
>>>> gives only error messages.  When I try to decrypt a message, I get
>>>>
>>>> something like this:
>>>>  OpenPGP Security Info
>>>>  
>>>>  Error - signature verification failed
>>>>  
>>>>  gpg command line and output:
>>>>  gpg
>>>>  gpg: problem with the agent - disabling agent use
>>>>  gpg: can't query passphrase in batch mode
>>>>  gpg: Invalid passphrase; please try again ...
>>>>  gpg: can't query passphrase in batch mode
>>>>  gpg: Invalid passphrase; please try again ...
>>>>  gpg: can't query passphrase in batch mode
>>>>  gpg: encrypted with 1024-bit ELG-E key, ID XXXXXXXX, created 2004-01-09
>>>>  
>>>>        "xxxx <xx at xxxxx.com>"
>>>>  
>>>>  gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID XXXXXXXX, created 2008-03-04
>>>>  
>>>>      "xxxxx <xxxx at xxxx.com>"
>>>>  
>>>>  gpg: public key decryption failed: bad passphrase
>>>>  gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available
>>>>
>>>> Is anyone else seeing this or having ideas on how to fix it?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> /Lars
>>>
>>> I have it only in Precise.
>>>
>>> Does gpg work properly as a command line tool (if you make a file of the
>>> email source and descrypt or check signature)?
>>>
>>> Best regards/Nio
>>
>> Does anyone have Saucy running that can reproduce the same problem?
>> I've gone through several updates and even re-installed the system from
>> DVD and the problem still persists.
>>
> 
> Please double check your password and make sure the private key is available

That's probably not it.  GnuPG works from the shell. The key can be used
to encrypt and decrypt from the shell Nio asked that the other day.

In LXDE, there is not even a prompt to enter the passphrase - not even
once.  Instead of asking for a passphrase, it just fails.  There's not
even an error message, I have to open 'details' to get the information
posted above.

Regards,
/Lars