gpg: gpg-agent is not available in this session

[go_beep_yourself]

What is causing this? I've been seeing it over and over again. What is going on?

gpg: gpg-agent is not available in this session

[1awesomeguy]

Bump.

Getting the same error here. I'm trying the following:

user@ubuntu:~$ gpg -c --cipher-algo aes256 test.txt
gpg: gpg-agent is not available in this session

[lariosa42]

Bump.

I'm getting the same issue. I have a file, "my_file.tar.gz", and I want to encrypt it with:

gpg -c my_file.tar.gz

Running this command gives:

gpg: gpg-agent is not available in this session

Encryption/decryption seems to work fine, but the message is a little strange, and it would be good to know what it is referring to.

[Primefalcon]

hmmmm getting this myself, encryption decryption seems to work fine, it just prompts me for the pass in the cli rather than popping up the box though like it should

[anthalamus]

as stated here: http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/m...002dAGENT.html,
"gpg-agent is a daemon to manage secret (private) keys independently from any protocol. It is used as a backend for gpg and gpgsm as well as for a couple of other utilities."

simply add option "--no-use-agent" to get rid of warning, unless you specifically want to use the GnuPG-Agent.

[Primefalcon]

as stated here: http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/m...002dAGENT.html,
"gpg-agent is a daemon to manage secret (private) keys independently from any protocol. It is used as a backend for gpg and gpgsm as well as for a couple of other utilities."

simply add option "--no-use-agent" to get rid of warning, unless you specifically want to use the GnuPG-Agent.

Thing is I kind of liked that graphical box but yoh well.... no biggy I spose

Another problem I just noticed is there is no anymore for me to encrypt/decrypt documents on gedit and the plugin option is gone from preferences->plugins