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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/debugging.texi | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/gpg-agent.texi | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/gpgsm.texi | 6 |
4 files changed, 30 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index 4262865a5..9a9e213a3 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2004-11-05 Werner Koch <[email protected]> + + * debugging.texi (Common Problems): Curses pinentry problem. + 2004-10-22 Werner Koch <[email protected]> * tools.texi (Helper Tools): Document gpgsm-gencert.sh. diff --git a/doc/debugging.texi b/doc/debugging.texi index 9406ba567..b9ae06e2b 100644 --- a/doc/debugging.texi +++ b/doc/debugging.texi @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ @node Debugging @chapter How to solve problems -Everone knows that software often does not do what it should do and thus +Everyone knows that software often does not do what it should do and thus there is a need to track down problems. We call this debugging in a reminiscent to the moth jamming a relay in a Mark II box back in 1947. @@ -87,9 +87,24 @@ in a standard way and directly available from @command{gpgsm}. @itemize @bullet @item Error code @samp{Not supported} from Dirmngr - Most likely the option @option{enable-ocsp} is active for gpgsm - but Dirmngr's OCSP feature has not been enabled using - @option{allow-ocsp} in @file{dirmngr.conf}. +Most likely the option @option{enable-ocsp} is active for gpgsm +but Dirmngr's OCSP feature has not been enabled using +@option{allow-ocsp} in @file{dirmngr.conf}. + +@item The Curses based Pinentry does not work + +The far most common reason for this is that the environment variable +@code{GPG_TTY} has not been set correctly. Make sure that it has been +set to a real tty devce and not just to @samp{/dev/tty}; +i.e. @samp{GPG_TTY=tty} is plainly wrong; what you want is +@samp{GPG_TTY=`tty`} --- note the back ticks. Also make sure that +this environment variable gets exported, that is you should follow up +the setting with an @samp{export GPG_TTY} (assuming a Bourne style +shell). Even for GUI based Pinentries; you should have set +@code{GPG_TTY}. See the section on installing the @program{gpg-agent} +on how to do it. + + @end itemize diff --git a/doc/gpg-agent.texi b/doc/gpg-agent.texi index f361cbf6b..cccbef02a 100644 --- a/doc/gpg-agent.texi +++ b/doc/gpg-agent.texi @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ fi @end smallexample @noindent -You should aleays add the following lines to your @code{.bashrc} or +You should aleways add the following lines to your @code{.bashrc} or whatever initialization file is used for all shell invocations: @smallexample diff --git a/doc/gpgsm.texi b/doc/gpgsm.texi index 94e6936ad..beedab7b7 100644 --- a/doc/gpgsm.texi +++ b/doc/gpgsm.texi @@ -262,6 +262,12 @@ default value is @file{/usr/sbin/dirmngr}. This is only used as a fallback when the environment variable @code{DIRMNGR_INFO} is not set or a running dirmngr can't be connected. +@item --prefer-system-dirmngr +@opindex prefer-system-dirmngr +If a system wide @command{dirmngr} is running in daemon mode, first try +to connect to this one. Fallback to a pipe based server if this does +not work. + @item --no-secmem-warning @opindex no-secmem-warning Don't print a warning when the so called "secure memory" can't be used. |