[Bug 1650989] Re: pinentry-gnome3 breaks gpg-agent

[niknah]

In ubuntu 18.04 it doesn't ask for the pin when I'm logged in via ssh
without a DISPLAY= variable.

Tried adding "pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-curses" to ~/.gnupg
/gpg-agent.conf but it didn't help.

I had to remove pinentry-gnome3 to get gpg working when logged in via
ssh.

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Title:
  pinentry-gnome3 breaks gpg-agent

Status in pinentry package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Ubuntu version: 16.10
  Desktop environment: i3

  Attempting to decrypt a previously encrypted file:

  gpg: public key decryption failed: Operation cancelled
  gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

  strace -f -F of a gpg decrypt shows the following:
  [pid 17851] read(6, "INQUIRE PINENTRY_LAUNCHED 17853\n", 1002) = 32
  [pid 17851] write(6, "END", 3)          = 3
  [pid 17851] write(6, "\n", 1)           = 1
  [pid 17851] read(6, "ERR 83886179 Operation cancelled"..., 1002) = 44
  [pid 17851] write(2, "gpg: decryption failed: No secre"..., 37gpg: decryption failed: No secret key) = 37

  switching to pinentry-gtk-2 seems to fix this problem.

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