and

recently hangs often, fails to encrypt, need to manually kill gpg

recently hangs often, fails to encrypt, need to manually kill gpg

recently hangs often, fails to encrypt, need to manually kill gpg

recently hangs often, fails to encrypt, need to manually kill gpg

recently hangs often, fails to encrypt, need to manually kill gpg

But ... on a happier note ... my own system seems to be fully working again. Thanks...

But ... on a happier note ... my system seems to be fully working again. Thanks to...

probably it needs a setting in gpg-agent.conf pointing to a working pinentry executable....