On 16/11/14 05:59, da...@gbenet.com wrote: > Werner, > > I have partly resolved the problem - which seems to be related to gnupg2 > Thunderbird and > Enigmail running on a 64 bit Linux. The only error message am now getting is > "bad > passphrase" when I've not even entered a passphrase but am about to too.
I had this same difficulty around June this year when I migrated from Windows7 to UbuntuStudio 1404. (both 64 bit). I wanted to use gnupg2 rather than the standard gnupg1-4.-16 which was packaged with Ubuntu and the gnupg website said that gnupg1 and gnupg2 could co-exist ok on the same machine. So I installed the Ubuntu gnupg2 package 2.0.22. I had migrated my Thunderbird profile ok from Windows7 to Ubuntu and was happily using Thunderbird 24.6 and enigmail 1.6 before I installed gnupg2. Afterwards, I could not get emails to be signed. I did get the bad passphrase message without having been asked to provide one. I also got a 'no pinentry' message. I removed the Ubuntu gnupg2.0.22 package and using only gnupg1.4.16, Thunderbird and enigmail worked perfectly. I then set about learning how to install myself the latest version (at that time) which was gnupg2.0.26 with help from this list. When I got it installed, enigmail then worked perfectly. I cannot advise how to install gnupg2.0.26 - it was above my pay-grade at the time but I did manage it. And I have subsequently upgraded Thunderbird many times (now at 31.2) and enigmail too (now at 1.7.2). I confirm that on UbuntuStudio 14.04 64 bit, Thunderbird 31.2 with enigmail 1.7.2 works just fine with gnupg2.0.26. I wrote up some of my problem on launchpad (Ubuntu bug reports) and there is at least one other bug reporting similar behaviour. For further info on these, try these links : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg2/+bug/1332864 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg2/+bug/1313879 My conclusion was that there must have been some issue with the gnupg2.0.22 package as prepared and released by ubuntu. Philip
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