Re: GnuPG 2.1 with Git, problem in zsh, not in ksh

[shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@xxxxxxxxx>]

check that GPG_AGENT_INFO and GPG_TTY are correct - the syntax of the
former is <socket file>:<pid>:<idr but just set it to 1>

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
<andreas.kahari@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a Perl developer using zsh and git, and I sign my git commits using
> gpg2 (from GnuPG 2.1).
>
> In ksh, I'm able to "git commit -S code.pl", but I noticed that this
> stopped working the other week when I started using zsh:
>
> [laptop] ENA % git commit -S submit.pl
> gpg: signing failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> gpg: signing failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> error: gpg failed to sign the data
> fatal: failed to write commit object
>
> Simply starting up ksh and running the same command works. "Works"
> in this case means git calls gpg2 which uses pinentry to request the
> password, etc.
>
> Since I'm resonably new to zsh, I'm not even sure where to start looking
> for the solution.  The environment variables in zsh are identical to
> those in ksh.
>
> This is my ~/.zshrc file:
>
> # For interactive zsh sessions
>
> # Completion options
> unsetopt AUTO_REMOVE_SLASH
>
> # History options
> setopt EXTENDED_HISTORY
> setopt HIST_EXPIRE_DUPS_FIRST
> setopt HIST_FIND_NO_DUPS
> setopt HIST_IGNORE_DUPS
> setopt SHARE_HISTORY
> unsetopt INC_APPEND_HISTORY
>
> HISTFILE="$HOME/.zsh/history"
> HISTSIZE=10000
> SAVEHIST=5000
>
> bindkey '^R' history-incremental-pattern-search-backward
> bindkey '^G' history-beginning-search-backward
>
> # Input/Output options
> setopt CORRECT
> setopt DVORAK
>
> # Job control options
> setopt BGNICE
>
> # Prompting options
> #setopt TRANSIENT_RPROMPT
>
> PROMPT="[%m] %B%F{red}%1~%f%b %# "
> RPROMPT="%F{blue}%T%f"
>
> # Zle options
> unsetopt BEEP
> setopt VI
>
> autoload -Uz compinit
> compinit
>
> alias ls="ls -F"
>
> export VISUAL="vim"
> export EDITOR="$VISUAL"
>
> --
> :: Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri, Bioinformatics Developer, BILS,
> :: Uppsala University, Sweden
> ::----------------------------------------------------------------------
> :: My other car is a cdr.