Unable to sign message with Enigmail - No passphrase prompt

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I have Thunderbird 24.4.0 and Enigmail 1.5.2 installed. My OS is Kubuntu 13.10 x64. gpg-agent version 2.0.20-1ubuntu3 gnupg version 1.4.14-1ubuntu2.1 pinentry-qt4 version 0.8.1-1ubuntu2 kgpg version 4.4.11.5-0ubuntu0.1

I have only one profile in Thunderbird. One email account. I created a new key pair using kgpg. When trying to sign and send an email, I get an error: Send operation aborted. Error - bad passphrase.

I never get prompted to enter a passphrase. gpg.conf is configured to "use-agent" but commenting that out doesn't do anything. I have no idea what I have to do to get a passphrase prompt.

Any assistance is appreciated.

Thanks

Edit: Since it appears I am using gpg 1.4, do I have to use pinentry? What are the pros/cons of using it/not using it? Should I upgrade to gpg 2.0?

Fersty

Posted 2014-03-30T05:51:35.123

Reputation: 11

It looks like you gave a password for your private key, or still have another (older) key around. What output is gpg --list-secret giving? – Jens Erat – 2014-03-30T08:28:39.033

It shows the sec/uid/ssb of the key I am trying to use. No other keys. – Fersty – 2014-03-30T13:01:23.243

Answers

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In my case I solved this replacing /bin/gpg by /bin/gpg2 path on Enigmail configuration.

Felipe

Posted 2014-03-30T05:51:35.123

Reputation: 921

You mean renaming? – FiveO – 2014-09-09T09:06:35.257

No. In Enigmail configuration I replaced the path /bin/gpg by /bin/gpg2 I saw this solution in a forum that I don't remember now, but I spent hours trying a solution. – Felipe – 2014-09-09T17:05:26.903

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