Re: pinentry password screen freezes

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:09:11 +0000
Jamie Griffin <jamie%fantomatic.co.uk@localhost> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I've installed security/gpg2, pinentry is one of it's dependencies. I'm 
> trying to generate a new key and when gpg invokes pinentry to enter a 
> passphrase it freezes my terminal. This happens when using logged in remotely 
> and when used on the console. I'm using the curses only version as there is 
> no x11 on this system. 
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this and knows how to debug and fix it? 

I have the reverse problem. When I try to send signed E-mail with
mail/sylpheed it no longer pops up the X11 dialog, but freezes sylpheed
and shows a curses dialog on there terminal where sylpheed was started.

-Tobias