[Bug 1787347] Re: ssh-agent support fails to open pinentry (missing DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS)

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: gnupg2 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  ssh-agent support fails to open pinentry (missing
  DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS)

Status in gnupg2 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I use an authentication subkey of my GPG key on my Yubikey hardware
  token as my SSH key. This works fine in Bionic with gpg-agent's ssh-
  agent support, and, until a couple of weeks ago, worked fine on
  Cosmic.

  Now it fails (GPG *signing* works fine), complaining about “invalid
  ioctl for device” in the journalctl logs.

  This turns out to be an environment issue - running
  ```
  systemctl --user set-environment DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
  systemctl --user restart gpg-agent
  ```
  results in a working pinentry popup, and successful authentication for SSH sessions.

  Either gnupg has changed to require this environment for its ssh-agent
  support, or systemd has stopped exporting this environment variable
  into user session units.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
  Package: gpg-agent 2.2.8-1ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.16.0+bcachefs.git20180614.0eb4ad1d-1-generic 4.16.0
  Uname: Linux 4.16.0+bcachefs.git20180614.0eb4ad1d-1-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: communitheme:ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Thu Aug 16 17:57:31 2018
  SourcePackage: gnupg2
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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