I am having a problem while trying to decrypt some keys using GPG. The following output is given to me:
gpg: can't connect to the agent: IPC connect call failed
I already edited some files, pointed in this tutorial: https://michaelheap.com/gpg-cant-connect-to-the-agent-ipc-connect-call-failed/ but with no success.
Possible reasons for that?
Thanks in advance
There is probably already a gpg-agent running on the system, which your gpg command is unable to connect to.
If you do a pkill -9 gpg-agent and then source <(gpg-agent --daemon) to restart the agent, you should be able to connect to the pinentry-curses for inputting your password.
I had the same problem. In my case, the gpg config files were somehow corrupted. To solve it, I have removed all the configurations inside ~/.gnupg (make sure to backup any keys that you still need). Then I have reinstalled gpg and everything worked well.
In my case the agent wasn't even started. This is what I did to resolve:
C:\Program Files (x86)\gnupg\bin>gpg-connect-agent -v
gpg-connect-agent: no running gpg-agent - starting 'C:\Program Files (x86)\gnupg\bin\gpg-agent.exe'
gpg-connect-agent: waiting for the agent to come up ... (5s)
gpg-connect-agent: connection to agent established
> ^Z
Afterwards the commands to the agent started working.
