On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:49:47 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 21:43 +0200, Frederik Himpe wrote:
>
>> > I know you asked me to find out what processes the first two boxes
>> > were, but I've been too lazy...sorry. Just describing what's been
>> > happening for me lately. How about other GNOME-ies?
>>
>> When logging into GNOME, I get a pinentry-qt dialog presented. I have
>> the impression this one is asking for my pgp passphrase (it mentions an
>> e-mail address and my SSH key is not using a passphrase), but I have to
>> cancel it to continue logging in (it does not seem to accept my
>> passphrase).
>
> That sounds like the second dialog I describe in my scenario. Now you
> mention it, it *does* look like a Qt dialog.

What pinentry packages do you have installed?

[root@(protected)
pinentry-gtk-0.7.5-1mdv2008.1
pinentry-curses-0.7.5-1mdv2008.1
[root@(protected) ~]#

You also need to configure gpg-agent to use your preferred program.
See the gpg-agent man page.

[nicbrown@(protected)
pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2
default-cache-ttl 1800

###+++--- GPGConf ---+++###
debug-level basic
log-file socket:///home/nicbrown/.gnupg/log-socket
###+++--- GPGConf ---+++### Tue 22 Nov 2005 20:46:45 GMT
# GPGConf edited this configuration file.
# It will disable options before this marked block, but it will
# never change anything below these lines.
[nicbrown@(protected) ~]$


Integrating keychain and seahorse would be the ideal solution.
See my comments in https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=31482

Cheers,
Nick