| Posted on: | 11/08/21 23:40:33 |
| Last edited: | 11/08/21 23:57:04 |
First of all, your help, any help would be greatly appreciated.
[h] the problem [/h] I’ve been using the [https://passwordstore.org] program for quite a while now, about 9 months I’d say. All was going well until about 4 weeks ago. I don’t know what happened, what caused it or why. Pass started acting up, it took from 20 to 30 seconds what used to take literally 1 second. The pinentry-gtk-2 program was taking a whole lot of time to start. So I dug deeper. Eventually I found out that it definitely had something to do with GnuPG as decrypting files directly through GnuPG also yielded the same results, after all, pass is just a bash script that uses gpg encryption and decryption commands. So then I went searching on the internets and it was pretty bad. I couldn’t really find any information regarding GnuPG besides [0]
I’ve tried almost* everything to get gpg up and running but it just,
won’t work! I don’t know if this was a system upgrade or
something but point is, it just slowed way down. When [b]requesting a password, [/b]
it’d take anywhere from 20 to 40 seconds to just show the pinentry binary (the
one that asks you for the password), in particular, the pinentry-gtk-2, but
guess what? I tried using the ncurses version also and it didn’t work! I tried
decrypting and encrypting files directly by using gpg, but yielded the same
results!, also tried with the pinentry-tty binary.
I tried the stackexchange solution but it didn’t work. Later on,
I hopped onto libera IRC to join the gnupg channel, as
suggested by members in the pass channel, as this is clearly much more
specific to gpg. In the gnupg channel I had the fortune to be able to talk to
someone to walk me through a ton of things. Testing, after testing and testing.
We even tried creating less-resource intensive keys, creating temporary gnu
directories to store keys in, et cetera.
[b] Also, I should point out that the behaviour is not intermittent, [em] it is definitely constant. [/em] I do have a password cache enabled, but every time time has passed or I manually clear the password cache (with [code] echo RELOADAGENT | gpg-connect-agent [/code] ) the same behaviour happens. [/b]
[h] System Information [/h]
[em]Arch Linux. Hardware: T490. 16 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD. Intel core i7 8th gen. [/em]
[code] $ uname –all Linux t490-4rch 5.14.9-zen2-1-zen #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT Fri, 01 Oct 2021 19:03:23 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux [/code]
[h] logs [/h]
[code] strace pass show Test/random > strace.pass.show.test.random.out 2>&1 [/code] [url=https://gist.githubusercontent.com/TrevCan/27b969d478c69699f33df65d8cac4ff8/raw/c39cb3b3c713a5ebeddc18f3e7ef144601645733/gpgagent.debug.out] Log: gpg debug with strace [/url]
[quote=unixbhaskar] Well, add these lines in your gpg-agent.conf file and tail the log file on another window see live what is going on : [code] log-file /path/to/your/gpg-agent.log debug-pinentry debug ipc verbose [/code] [/quote]
[code] $ cat ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-tty
log-file /home/trevorlarbs/.gnupg/gpg-agent.debug.log debug-pinentry debug ipc verbose [/code]
[code] $ tail -f .gnupg/gpg-agent.debug.log > gpgagent.debug.out [/code]
[url=https://gist.githubusercontent.com/TrevCan/27b969d478c69699f33df65d8cac4ff8/raw/c39cb3b3c713a5ebeddc18f3e7ef144601645733/gpgagent.debug.out] Log: gpgagent.debug.out [/url]
[h] What I’ve done so far [/h] [list] [] i’ve tried with normal linux kernel, linux-lts, and linux-zen. Same behaviour for all three. [/] [] live Booting of usb with iso: [b]behaviour does change, it asks for password instantly.[/b] [/] [] tried with other WM / DEs. dwm (larbs, default), KDE, xfce4. same behaviour in all. [/] [] tried creating a temporary directory with new gpg keys, even with less resource intensive algorithms. Did not work, still took a lot of time. [/]
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[b]references [/b]
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[url=https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/628092/why-would-gpg-pinentry-be-slow-when-opening-in-gui-but-instantaneous-when-openin] 0. Why would GPG Pinentry be slow when opening in GUI but instantaneous when opening in CLI? [/url] [/] [] [url=https://old.reddit.com/r/GPGpractice/comments/q26tsf/pinentry_slows_down_all_of_a_sudden/?ref=share&ref_source=link] 1. pinentry slows down all of a sudden. r/GPGPractice. Posted by me. [/url] [/] [] [url=https://trevcan.github.io/neofetch.html] 2. neofetch [/url] [/] [] [url=https://old.reddit.com/r/GnuPG/comments/q2apuh/pinentry_takes_about_30_seconds_to_launch/] 3. pinentry takes about 30 seconds to launch. r/GnuPG. Posted by me. [/url] [/*]
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