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FS#63938 - [5.3.1] gpg: problem with the agent: A locale function failed

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by zero (zer0_o) - Saturday, 28 September 2019, 10:33 GMT
Last edited by freswa (frederik) - Friday, 21 February 2020, 21:53 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Since upgrade kernel 5.3.1
gpg: problem with the agent: A locale function failed

Steps to reproduce:

[ root@resonance:~/tmp ]# gpg -c webmachine.txt
gpg: problem with the agent: A locale function failed
gpg: error creating passphrase: Operation cancelled
gpg: symmetric encryption of 'webmachine.txt' failed: Operation cancelled
[ root@resonance:~/tmp ]#


Sep 28 12:16:35 resonance pinentry-curses[14236]: Remote error from secret service: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .serv>
Sep 28 12:16:35 resonance gpg-agent[13676]: Failed to lookup password for key u/S89F8ABF0E00324C7 with secret service: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files
Sep 28 12:16:38 resonance pinentry-curses[14240]: Remote error from secret service: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .serv>
Sep 28 12:16:38 resonance gpg-agent[13676]: Failed to lookup password for key u/S89F8ABF0E00324C7 with secret service: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files
Sep 28 12:16:38 resonance gpg-agent[13676]: pinentry-curses: error converting from UTF-8 to ANSI_X3.4-1968: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character


[ root@resonance:~/tmp ]# gpg-agent
gpg-agent[14308]: gpg-agent running and available
[ root@resonance:~/tmp ]# gpg -c webmachine.txt
gpg: problem with the agent: A locale function failed
gpg: error creating passphrase: Operation cancelled
gpg: symmetric encryption of 'webmachine.txt' failed: Operation cancelled
[ root@resonance:~/tmp ]#
[ root@resonance:~/tmp ]# gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.17
libgcrypt 1.8.5
Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Home: /root/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA, EDDSA
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,
CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
Hash: SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2
[ root@resonance:~/tmp ]#
This task depends upon

Closed by  freswa (frederik)
Friday, 21 February 2020, 21:53 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Additional comments about closing:  This seems pretty stalled to me. If it's still an issue, please fill a re-open request. Thank you :)

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