GNU bug report logs - #26298
26.0.50; Gnus fails to sign mail with PGP

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Packages: gnus, emacs;

Reported by: Torsten Bronger <bronger <at> physik.rwth-aachen.de>

Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 12:13:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 26298 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Toon Claes <toon <at> iotcl.com>
To: Torsten Bronger <bronger <at> physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc: 26298 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26298: 26.0.50; Gnus fails to sign mail with PGP
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 00:32:31 +0200 (CEST)
Torsten Bronger <bronger <at> physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

> If I sign an email with C-c RET s o and try to send it, Emacs aborts
> with the following backtrace:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p
> nil)

I am getting the same error. 

I am using the following line to trigger my mails being signed:

<#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign>

Another thing I've noticed. When I manually sign a file with
epa-sign-file, it asks my passphrase and signs the file correctly.
When I afterwards try to send a signed mail, it is also signed
correctly. So it seems pinentry is failing, not the signing itself.

I'm having this problem for quite some time, and I am frequently
building a new emacs from master.

My current version:

GNU Emacs 26.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-apple-darwin16.6.0, NS appkit-1504.83
Version 10.12.5 (Build 16F73)) of 2017-06-26 

-- Toon




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