Re: [Duplicity-talk] problems with decryption gpg times out

[edgar . soldin]

On 07.05.2016 08:48, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi.  I am not getting my own messages, so I don't know if anything gets
> through, but I have some more information about this problem.

the list works fine. check your spam folders or whatever, this message as well 
as the other one went through. i assume you generally receive mails from the 
list as you are posting here, but just in case i'll cc you directly.
 
> I did a google search and apparently this has something to do with using
> gpg 2.1.  I have been trying different combinations of gpg options such
> as --pinentry-mode loopback and allow-pinentry-mode in my
> gpg-agent.conf, but I seem to have no way to enter my password, so I can
> decrypt a volume!  Not much point in backing up, if you can't restore.

yeah, gpg decided to make it really difficult to pump passwords into gpg 2.1+ 
via shell. what you need is

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/duplicity-talk/2015-07/msg00068.html

> Without duplicity, I can enter my password for gpg fine, but no
> combination if exporting the password or not is working for me.
> 
> Please help if you can.
> 

additionally you may want to try duply, which tests if your given gpg settings 
work as expected before running duplicity itself.

..ede/duply.net