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Description of problem: As a part of building of custom rpm package as described here: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite/5.3/html/Deployment_Guide/satops-rpm-building.html I was trying to generate a gpg key for signing the package. However the command `gpg --gen-key` keeps failing at the point of passphrase request: it says "gpg: cancelled by user". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2 Beta (Maipo) $ rpm -q --whatprovides `which gpg` gnupg2-2.0.22-3.el7.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. gpg --gen-key Actual results: $ gpg --gen-key gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.22; Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Please select what kind of key you want: (1) RSA and RSA (default) (2) DSA and Elgamal (3) DSA (sign only) (4) RSA (sign only) Your selection? 2 DSA keys may be between 1024 and 3072 bits long. What keysize do you want? (2048) Requested keysize is 2048 bits Please specify how long the key should be valid. 0 = key does not expire <n> = key expires in n days <n>w = key expires in n weeks <n>m = key expires in n months <n>y = key expires in n years Key is valid for? (0) 0 Key does not expire at all Is this correct? (y/N) y GnuPG needs to construct a user ID to identify your key. Real name: Oleg Fayans Email address: ofayans@redhat.com Comment: You selected this USER-ID: "Oleg Fayans <ofayans@redhat.com>" Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? o You need a Passphrase to protect your secret key. gpg: cancelled by user gpg: Key generation canceled. Expected results: Key generation should succeed Additional info:
What's the output of rpm -qa | grep pinentry ? Do you run this command in GUI session or from ssh?
pinentry-0.8.1-14.el7.x86_64 And - yes, I'm running it in a ssh session.
If you do: $ pinentry OK Your orders please GETPIN Does it display pin entry dialog? Also is gpg-agent running? If you kill it, does it start when gpg2 is invoked to create the key?
1. The pin entry dialog is presented as expected. 2. gpg-agent is running. When I kill it, it automatically starts at the last step of gpg --gen-key
I tried to reproduce the problem but was unable to. GPG always generates the key for me after I enter the passphrase into the pinentry dialog twice. I can reproduce the behaviour you reported only if I press cancel on the pinentry dialog.
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