Joshua J. Kugler venit, vidit, dixit 03.11.2009 19:11: > On Monday 02 November 2009, Alex Riesen said something like: >> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 01:58, Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >>> Nobody on the git IRC channel responded to this question, even >>> after asking it a few times, so I thought I'd try here. >>> >>> I'm having trouble signing a tag. I'm using this command: >>> >>> git tag -u EAFD344D14EA086E -F .git/TAG_EDITMSG tag_name >>> >>> I type in my passphrase, and am then told: >>> >>> error: gpg failed to sign the tag >>> error: unable to sign the tag >>> >>> However, if I use this command: >>> >>> gpg -s -u EAFD344D14EA086E >>> >>> and use the same passphrase, it works fine. Is there any way to >>> find out why a key-signing is failing? >> >> What does "echo $?" after it prints? IOW, maybe plain gpg fails too, >> without printing anything special, and you don't pay attention to the >> exit code. Git does. And it runs "gpg -bsau <key-id>". > > $ git tag -s -F .git/TAG_EDITMSG tag_name > > You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for > user: "Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@xxxxxxxxxxx>" > 1024-bit DSA key, ID 14EA086E, created 2009-08-09 > > gpg: problem with the agent - disabling agent use > error: gpg failed to sign the tag > error: unable to sign the tag > $ echo $? > 128 > > And when I sign at the prompt: > > $ gpg -sa > > You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for > user: "Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@xxxxxxxxxxx>" > 1024-bit DSA key, ID 14EA086E, created 2009-08-09 > > gpg: problem with the agent - disabling agent use > Blah blah blah blah > Blah blah blah blah > $ echo $? > 2 [...] I assume you don't want to use gpg-agent, that should be the easy way out. If gpg is trying to contact the agent it means that "use-agent" is set (from the config) and, probably, also that GPG_AGENT_INFO is set but no agent responds at that socket. (echo $GPG_AGENT_INFO) Many distros set up this stuff automatically. Try unsetting both: unset GPG_AGENT_INFO gpg --no-use-agent ... If that helps you can put "--no-use-agent" in your gpg config. 2 is a non-fatal error, 128 a fatal one, btw. Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html