Had you said "Have you tried rebooting" I'd have put you on a list for a pounding!<br><br>:-)<br><br>It's looking like the new gpg-agent crap that manages the passphrase process is just broken for a commandline only situation. It's supposed to popup a curses-based "now what?" environment but that doesn't work over an ssh connection. I can manually get an "OK. Your orders please" line out of pinentry but it seems gpg-agent can't find it _AND_ there is no conf file around to define it in.<br>
<br>packaging error. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:48 PM, arxaaron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arxaaron@gmail.com">arxaaron@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Have you tried turning off SELinux??<br>
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;-)<br>
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(ducks and runs for cover)<br>
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peace<br>
aaron<br>
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On 2010/12/02, at 16:50 , Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Paul Cartwright<br>
> <<a href="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com">ale@pcartwright.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 12/02/2010 04:06 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> > Am I going blind? gpg2 --gen-key never asks for a passphrase for<br>
> the new<br>
> > key generation and yet it fails to create a key pair grousing<br>
> about no<br>
> > password AND there is no flag to append a password without being it<br>
> > batch mode which is not allowed in the key-gen phase.<br>
><br>
> Suggests: gpg-agent (gpg2 --gen-key requires /usr/bin/gpg-agent)<br>
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><br>
><br>
><br>
> got gpg-agent?<br>
><br>
> yep. but gpg-agent is for the keyring. which is empty since I HAVE<br>
> NO KEYS!!!!<br>
><br>
> tried also gpg --gen-key with same results as /usr/bin/gpg is a link<br>
> to gpg2<br>
><br>
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