Hi, I use a OpenPGP smartcard with gnupg 2.0.14 and Ubuntu for different tasks. From time to time I face the following problem: The gpg-agent crashes for some reason after entering the PIN, 'ps' reports the daemon process as a zombie
STAT START TIME COMMAND Zs Feb26 0:01 [gpg-agent] <defunct> and 'gpgconf --reload scdaemon' gives the following error: gpgconf: error running `/usr/bin/gpg-connect-agent': exit status 1 gpgconf: error running `/usr/bin/gpg-connect-agent scd killscd': General error One problem is the fact that the agent crashes but I'm more after a solution how to recover after it crashed for any reason. I can restart the gpg-agent inside a terminal but then it is not available for applications such as Thunderbird with Enigmail. So far, the only solution that I know of is restarting the X session, i.e. log out and log in again. But to do this I have to close all running applications which sometimes is not an option. Therefore I wonder if anybody knows of a solution to restart gpg-agent on the level of the gnome-session without restarting the session itself. Perhaps one way would be to somehow change the GPG_AGENT_INFO environment variable for the running session, but I don't know if that's possible. Any ideas? Many thanks, Marco _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
