It originally broke a year or so ago – maybe longer, I don't recall exactly -- when the simple prompt for your passphrase was replaced by a separate pinentry tool that wanted to open a pretty X window for that. Nobody uses ssh anymore, apparently, and checking DISPLAY and falling back to a terminal prompt wasn't very obvious, so everyone had to figure out how to do
echo pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-curses >~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf Well, even that no longer works: $ git tag -s -a libcxx/0.21.0/`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S` -m 'Tag version 0.21.0' error: gpg failed to sign the data error: unable to sign the tag … aaaand, we're done. stracing what was going on wasn't very enlightening:[pid 2581154] read(4, "INQUIRE PINENTRY_LAUNCHED 2581156 curses 1.1.0 - gnome localhost:10.0\n", 1002) = 70 [pid 2581154] write(2, "[GNUPG:] PINENTRY_LAUNCHED 2581156 curses 1.1.0 - gnome localhost:10.0", 70 <unfinished …>
[ buncha noise, and finally ][pid 2581154] read(4, "ERR 83918950 Inappropriate ioctl for device <Pinentry>\n", 1002) = 55
And that's it. After reading random man pages, here and there, and simply trying things at random, I discovered that setting GPG_TTY environment variable makes pinentry-curses work again:
GPG_TTY=`tty` git tag -s [options] And, pinentry-curses works again. There you go.Why can't this be an obvious default fallback, so everything works flawlessly, by default, for everyone? Would love to hear a logical explanation.
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