Re: [gentoo-dev] gpg: signing failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

[Andrew Savchenko]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 11:16:58 +0200 Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> Ühel kenal päeval, K, 14.12.2016 kell 13:08, kirjutas Sam Jorna:
> > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 02:35:28PM +1100, Sam Jorna wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 09:34:21AM +0700, grozin@g.o wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, 11 Dec 2016, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On 12/11/2016 03:13 PM, grozin@g.o wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > gpg: signing failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> > > > > this might indicate a want for export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
> > > > I don't understand what has really happened. I removed my last
> > > > commit, an 
> > > > attempt to commit it again failed with gpg: signing failed. Then
> > > > I logged 
> > > > out of the box on which I have the git tree (I log in this box
> > > > via ssh), 
> > > > and logged in again. After that the commit succeeded.
> > >
> > > I was also getting some odd issues with commit signing, though it
> > > seemed 
> > > to settle for me when I switched to pinentry-curses (since I use 
> > > awesome), so I figured it was probably a local issue. Perhaps
> > > there's a 
> > > wider problem here?
> >
> > If anyone else is getting this, it seems to be resolved by exporting 
> > GPG_TTY=$(tty) either immediately before attempting to sign or in
> > your 
> > shell ~/.*rc file.
>
> I'd consider this a temporary workaround. The real issue would just be
> workarounded with this, which is nice to get something committed, but
> not so nice longterm.
> I had similar issues, but it turned out some pinentry issues for me
> iirc, so properly fixed by now and not needing such hackery anymore.

This is not a workaround, but officially recommended practice, from
man gpg-agent:

You should always add the following lines to your .bashrc or
whatever initialization file is used for all shell invocations:

    GPG_TTY=$(tty)
    export GPG_TTY


Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko