Having upgraded to Fedora 23, the GPG_AGENT_INFO environment variable is no longer being set, and/or gnome-keyring is no longer acting as a GPG agent. There are a few bugs out there that might be relevant. https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue1986 on the GPG side talks about the use of the agent socket and its environment variable. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1189666 which led me there seems to suggest it's up to GDM / Gnome Shell / gnome-settings-daemon / whatever to set the environment variable, which, as far as I can tell, used to happen. It isn't anymore, and so GPG agent functionality care of Seahorse appears broken. Anyway, this is a regression from Fedora 22. Let me know if there are any diagnostics I can do to help. AfC
This may be https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221234 ; this report however is aimed at GNOME on Fedora with a view to reporting that something that was functional appear to have regressed.
Here is the related upstream posting: http://osdir.com/ml/desktop-devel-gnome/2015-08/msg00002.html
Ok. All the dependencies listed there are already installed and/or newer than specified, with the expcetion of pinentry-gnome3 but that doesn't seem to have made a difference. There's still no gpg-agent process running. Oh, wait. We're supposed to use `gpg2` command now. And jump through the hoops specified at <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GnuPG#.22Lost.22_keys.2C_upgrading_to_gnupg_version_2.1> to upgrade from GnuPG 1 to GnuPG 2? If that's the case it would be nice if the gnupg2 package provided /usr/bin/gpg as a compatibility layer? Meanwhile, something in the desktop now needs to depend on pinentry-gnome3 to cause it to be installed on upgrade from < 23? AfC
In addition I think something may need to do this, or its equivalent: $ cat /data/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-gnome3
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