Signing and decrypting mails stopped working after dist upgrade, gpg-agent seems to sleep

[Fredrik Ismyren]

Hello friends!

I'm using Thunderbird 24.1.1, Enigmail 1.6 and since I did a dist upgrade to Lubuntu 13.10 I've had problems with Enigmail. I did the same upgrade procedure on my laptop with no problems. Really odd.

Ok back to my main computer. It seems like the gpg-agent can't talk with Enigmail even though the process is running. I used Gpg2 for a while as a temporary solution. That way I had to type the password for every mail but later on this solution stopped working too.

Here's the problem. When I try to sign a message with my key I get "OpenPGP warning, bad passphrase". When I try to sign from the command line I get "problem with the agent. inactivating agent usage". I'm using the swedish translation so I hope you are able to associate these converted error messages to the ones in english.
When I use only encryption when sending email then it works. When I try to decrypt a message in my inbox then I get the following error message in the pink bar above the message frame: "OpenPGP Error - verification of signature failed; click on 'details' for more information.

Please give me a hints I'm going nuts here.

Cheers,
Fredrik - Sweden.

[Fredrik Ismyren]

Wrong forum. Sorry ..

[Patrick Brunschwig]

Topic moved.

[Fredrik Ismyren]

I'm aware that I should seek answers elsewhere too because the signing process fails from the command line. I just hoped that someone had experienced the same problem.

[Patrick Brunschwig]

Your problem is most likely that gpg-agent and its helper tools are not installed properly. You'll need:

• gpg-agent, matching to the installed version of GnuPG
• pinentry-qt, pinentry-gtk or similar (i.e. a pinentry that works on graphical desktops)
• a symlink "pinentry" that points to the installed pinetry-XXX

[Fredrik Ismyren]

Patrick! You're an ace! The symlink had been redirected to pinentry-qt4. I changed it to pinentry-gtk-2 and it started working. You made my day!