Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 474419
Seahorse don't prompt for passwords, show "Bad password" error.
Last modified: 2015-03-03 17:33:39 EST
Description of problem: Seahorse don't prompt for gpg passwords, showing a "Bad password" error. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): seahorse-2.24.1-1.fc10.i386 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: show "Bad password" Expected results: Prompt password Additional info: This issue occurs in systems where pinentry-gtk is not installed, in the xfce spin for example. Seahorse package currently not require pinentry-gtk, and this is needed to solve this problem.
I've got similar caused problems because pinentry-gtk is not installed. When trying to sign a foreign key with seahorse without pinentry-gtk installed, seahorse freezes and doesn't react on any input, neither on mouse nor on keyboard. A prompt for the passphrase of the own key is missing. After killing seahorse there is still a pinentry-process which needs 100% of cpu load, but without any output. Installing pinentry-gtk solved that problem. I think it would be a good idea to declare pinentry-gtk as a dependency of seahorse.
I've added explicit pinentry-gtk dependency to the rawhide package (seahorse-2.27.1-2.fc12), want to get some testing before pushing to stable Fedora releases.
Makes sense. > After killing seahorse there is still a pinentry-process which > needs 100% of cpu load, but without any output. seahorse requires gpgme, which in turn requires gnupg2, which in turn requires pinentry, which by default is only for ncurses.
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