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Enigmail fails to find gnupg executable

2016-11-10
2016-11-17
  • Dmitriy Zhuzhgov

    After the last update of enigmail i've encoutered an error

     
  • Dmitriy Zhuzhgov

    Thunderbird 45.4.0
    4.8.0-kali1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.8.5-1kali1 (2016-11-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux

     
  • Ludwig Hügelschäfer

    Please open a command line window. What happens, if you enter

    which gpg
    

    and

    which gpg2
    

    Please also produce a debug log file (https://enigmail.net/index.php/en/faq?view=category&id=11#faqLink_6) and post it here.

    Thanks!

     
  • juanmanGn

    juanmanGn - 2016-11-11

    Same issue here.
    Hope it helps

     
  • Dmitriy Zhuzhgov

    /usr/bin/gpg
    /usr/bin/gpg2

    Log: http://pastebin.com/Pe9ha9YV

     
  • mb

    mb - 2016-11-12

    Same issue here (Debian testing). Debug log: https://paste.headstrong.de/view/raw/34642073

    Nightly build (build date: 2016-11-12, version: 2.0a1pre, git rev: 231141444278e7bba0efe4d7362e45ff3652ffac) can "find" gpg2 (but I get other errors probably related to the early stage of the prerelease).

     

    Last edit: mb 2016-11-12
  • Ludwig Hügelschäfer

    To summarize: All reports so far have the "gpg failed with exitCode -1" and all are on Linux. GnuPG versions are differing, but I don't think that this matters.

     

    Last edit: Ludwig Hügelschäfer 2016-11-12
  • - 2016-11-13

    also had the issue on Arch Linux, Thunderbird 45.4, GPG 2.1.15
    fixed using the linked nightly from the last comment, thanks.

     
  • mb

    mb - 2016-11-13

    Works great, thanks Patrick!

     
  • ivcha

    ivcha - 2016-11-17

    Same problem here. I hope the fix will come to the stable version soon. (Arch Linux, TB 45.4.0, Enigmail 1.9.6)

     
  • Ricky Zhang

    Ricky Zhang - 2016-11-17

    When will the patch available in thunderbird? Are there any planned way to prevent broken build happens in future?

     
  • Patrick Brunschwig

    Enigmail v1.9.6 is not a broken build. It just contains a change that does not work properly on some Linux computers (but by far not all of them). There is no way to prevent this from happening, given that I do 80% of the development, all of the testing and and the releasing - and I'm not getting paid for doing this.

     

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