On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 14:33, Alan Mackenzie said:
> But I'd like to apologise for the tone of my first post, which came out
No problem, my tone is also often pretty rude.
> Yes, it was my pinentry, which had been set up to use gnome3. I was
Actually a pinentry should fallback to curses if DISPLA
Hello, Werner,
Thanks for such a fast and helpful answer to my post.
But I'd like to apologise for the tone of my first post, which came out
rather rude, something I hadn't intended.
On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 15:53:48 +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 20:48, Alan Mackenzie said:
> >
On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 20:48, Alan Mackenzie said:
> I type
>
> $ gpg --gen-key
Use
gpg -v --gen-key
to see more warning.
> agent_genkey failed: Timeout
Look like a problem with your pinentry. Did it show up on another
screen? The "-v" should tell you which pinentry was invoked; sha
Hello, gpg.
I'm trying to use gpg-2.2.41 on an up to date Gentoo GNU/Linux system.
I type
$ gpg --gen-key
, answer the questions about my name and email address, then wait ...,
and wait, ... and wait.
Finally a half error message appears:
agent_genkey failed: Timeout
, followed by a
