http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014819 http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014819#c9 Vítězslav Čížek changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |CONFIRMED CC| |vcizek@suse.com --- Comment #9 from Vítězslav Čížek --- Bug 777622 was the same problem. Pinentry can't open the tty, because the original user retained the tty ownership.

id uid=1000(vcizek) gid=100(users) groups=100(users) su test $ tty /dev/pts/12 $ ls -l /dev/pts/12 crw--w---- 1 vcizek tty 136, 12 30. bře 12.33 /dev/pts/12 $ strace gpg --gen-key [...] 9627 open("/dev/pts/12", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) 9627 write(1, "ERR 83886179 canceled", 21) = 21 [...]

There's a workaround, to force opening of a new terminal with eg script. Then pinentry will launch just fine. $ script /dev/null $ gpg --gen-key # launches pinentry-curses -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.