Created attachment 437299 [details] patched pinentry launcher Description of problem: When using gpg in a terminal, it detects that $DISPLAY is set and passes it along to pinentry. The wrapper script then errors out about no GUI pinentry existing when pinentry-ncurses would work fine. This patch should work, but since I also don't have any GUI applications that use GPG, I cannot really fully test it. Testing it without applying and installing it involves: 1. Comment out the check for $PINENTRY_BINARY and the corresponding 'fi' 2. Get an encrypted file (gpg --encrypt $file > $file.gpg) 3. Decrypt with: PINENTRY_BINARY=/path/to/patched/pinentry gpg --decrypy $file.gpg > /dev/null 4. pinentry-ncurses should pop up. Another thing that needs to be tested is: PINENTRY_BINARY=/path/to/patched/pinentry gui-app where gui-app requires a pinentry dialog for some action. Doing this from the command line should *not* result in pinentry-ncurses popping up in the terminal and should instead fail if there are no GUI pinentry dialogs installed. This can be simulated by commenting out the relevant if branches. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pinentry-0.8.0-3.fc13.x86_64
pinentry-0.8.1-4.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pinentry-0.8.1-4.fc14
pinentry-0.8.1-4.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pinentry-0.8.1-4.fc15
Sorry it took so long. This is indeed a nice fallback mechanism that should have been there in the beginning. I applied this to all current Fedoras (F14+). If you feel like it, you can test the update for F14/15.
Package pinentry-0.8.1-4.fc15: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing pinentry-0.8.1-4.fc15' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pinentry-0.8.1-4.fc15 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
pinentry-0.8.1-4.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
pinentry-0.8.1-4.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.