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Warning message when using gpg (The GNOME keyring manager hijacked the GnuPG agent)
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I'm using GnuPG 2.0.23 and GNOME 3.12. I get the following warning message when
using gpg or the pass password manager (also based on gpg) to decrypt some
information:

gpg: WARNING: The GNOME keyring manager hijacked the GnuPG agent.
gpg: WARNING: GnuPG will not work proberly - please configure that tool to not

interfere with the GnuPG system!

The secret information is successfully decrypted, but I can't make this warning
disappear.

I found little information on the web:

My knowledge of GNOME Keyring and GnuPG is very limited, so I don't know what's
the root cause of this problem or how it can be fixed.

I also filed an almost identical bug report on GNOME Bugzilla
(https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731927) but they say it's not a
GNOME-related bug.

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fturco added a project: Bug Report.Jun 19 2014, 9:43 PM
fturco added a subscriber: fturco.
• werner closed this task as Resolved.Jun 20 2014, 8:45 PM
• werner claimed this task.
• werner added a project: Not A Bug.

You need to configuire gnome-keyring-daemon not to hijack the gpg-agent. This
is done by not adding gpg to the
--components
options. It is a long standing GNOME problem that they willfully hijack the
interprocess connection to gpg-agent. This leads to lots of bug reports
directed to GnuPG and thus I finally added this warning.

neal added a subscriber: neal.Apr 10 2015, 2:27 PM

Note: for more information about this issue, please refer to:

  T1945

  https://wiki.gnupg.org/GnomeKeyring

(I've added this here, since this page is one of the top hits on ddg and google
when searching for the warning message.)

neal reopened this task as Open.Apr 10 2015, 2:27 PM
• werner closed this task as Resolved.Apr 10 2015, 3:24 PM