tag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:/discussions/problems/4253-gpg-on-mac-osx-1068-snow-leopard-wont-workGPGTools: Discussion 2016-02-24T12:34:47Ztag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/234384602013-01-04T07:52:05Z2013-01-04T07:52:05ZGPG on mac OSX 10.6.8 (snow leopard wont work<div><p>Hi Paul.</p>
<p>to fix your Mail.app problem saying that the plugin has been
disabled, please install the latest version of GPGMail for Snow
Leopard from our website:</p>
<p><a href=
"https://www.gpgtools.org/gpgmail/index.html">https://www.gpgtools.org/gpgmail/index.html</a></p>
<p>(Direct Link: <a href=
"https://github.com/downloads/GPGTools/GPGMail/GPGMail-1.4.1.dmg">https://github.com/downloads/GPGTools/GPGMail/GPGMail-1.4.1.dmg</a>)</p>
<p>Best is if you first install the GPGTools-Installer from
<a href="https://nightly.gpgtools.org">https://nightly.gpgtools.org</a>
and after that the GPGMail-1.4.1 from the link above.</p>
<p>When you generate a key and are asked for a passphrase you don't
have to enter an existing one but simply specify a new one.</p>
<p>If all this doesn't help, please elaborate a bit better where
things seem to fail, since it's not entirely clear from your
message.</p></div>Luke Letag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/234384602013-01-05T21:30:40Z2013-01-05T21:31:08ZGPG on mac OSX 10.6.8 (snow leopard wont work<div><p>Hi Luke<br>
Thanks for these solutions I uploaded the GPG Tools installer but
the link to GPG mail1.4.1 dmg failed to take me to the link and the
top link took me to an upgrade that required Mac OSX 10.7 and I am
on 10.6.8 I will try to generate a key from the new GPG but without
having changed anything else????<br>
Thanks again Luke I do understand that if Apple did their job and
supported bundles like these we would not be having this
conversation<br>
Regards<br>
Paul</p></div>Paultag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/234384602013-01-06T07:53:26Z2013-01-06T07:53:27ZGPG on mac OSX 10.6.8 (snow leopard wont work<div><p>I'm having the same problems. I have gone to gpgtools.org and
downloaded the latest installer twice (the last time just as Luke
suggested). First time, I got the same message as Paul. The second
time I got a message saying that mail quit unexpectedly...did I
want to reopen. Then it said "invalid crypto engine...GPGMail
cannot work. It didn't find GnuPG (/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin/gpg2)
with at least version 1.4.0. Please quit Mail, install a matching
GnuPG version, then restart Mail."</p></div>Paristag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/234384602013-01-07T11:05:18Z2013-01-07T11:05:18ZGPG on mac OSX 10.6.8 (snow leopard wont work<div><p><strong>Paul</strong>, I'm not sure what you are currently
trying to do. The GPGMail 1.4.1 link, that Luke posted, works fine
for me. But the best is, to simply run the nightly GPGTools
Installer from here: <a href=
"https://nightly.gpgtools.org">https://nightly.gpgtools.org</a></p>
<p>Hey <strong>Paris</strong>, same for you: pls also try our
nightly GPGTools Installer.</p>
<p>Please let us know if that works.</p></div>Stevetag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/234384602013-01-07T18:36:03Z2013-01-07T18:36:04ZGPG on mac OSX 10.6.8 (snow leopard wont work<div><p>Greetings,</p>
<p>I have:<br>
(1) a similar problem (Mail requesting a 4.6 compatible version of
gpg2), compounded with:</p>
<p>(2) a broken enigmail 1.5 extension on thunderbird 17 ("bad
passphrase").</p>
<p>I am running OS X 10.6.8.</p>
<p>I had installed gnupg before gpgtools, and it is still there
apparently, since commanding "gpg --version" reports its home
directory as "~/.gnupg".</p>
<p>MacGPG versions 1 and 2 are accounted for, residing in
corresponding subdirectories under the "/usr/local/" directory.</p>
<p>I list the steps I took below:</p>
<p>Initially I had enigmail 1.4 running fine under Thunderbird 17,
as well MacGPG (pre-GPGtools installer).</p>
<ul>
<li>First I installed GPGTools. And that broke enigmail: it could
not find "gnupg/S.gpg-agent". A google search turned up some posts,
with the most recent dating back to 2010...</li>
<li>I then tried the "fix" button in GPGPreferences. Enigmail still
broken.</li>
<li>Next, the nightly build of GPGTools. No dice.</li>
<li>I then removed enigmail and installed enigmail 1.5. Broken, but
now reporting "bad passphrase". The enigmail keymanager still
displays all the keys.</li>
<li>I then found the "GPGTools" fix button. To no avail.</li>
<li>Having a broken enigmail/Thunderbird, I fired up (GPG)Mail, but
was greeted with apparently the same message that the OP saw.</li>
</ul>
<p>That's at where I am now.<br>
I noticed that "GPGPreferences" takes quite a bit of time (more
than 5 minutes) to open from "System Preferences".</p>
<p>Thanks for your attention and possible assistance.</p>
<p>Happy 2013!</p>
<p>Marco A. A. de Oliveira</p></div>Marco A A de Oliveiratag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/234384602013-01-10T13:06:38Z2013-01-10T13:06:38ZGPG on mac OSX 10.6.8 (snow leopard wont work<div><p>Marco, could you try the steps I've described above your
post?</p>
<p>Currently we have 3 people with this problem. Paul & Paris,
were you able to try the nightly version of the GPGTools
Installer?</p></div>Stevetag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/234384602013-01-11T17:42:37Z2013-01-11T17:42:38ZGPG on mac OSX 10.6.8 (snow leopard wont work<div><p>Hi Steve,</p>
<p>Thanks for your help!</p>
<p>I tried with the nightly version of GPGTools (20130111-0015) and
while there is an error, there was considerable progress: GPGMail
opens fine and Enigmail/TB is OK. Yay!</p>
<p>The error is now that GPG Keychain Access is unable to
recognize/import existing GPG keys (skip to {CURRENT_ERROR} marker;
I used curly brackets to avoid confusing the formatting
filter).</p>
<p>I detailed the steps I followed below. The end of the message
has some signing-off text (after {END INSTALL}).</p>
<p>OK, baseline first.</p>
<p>{START BASELINE}</p>
<ul>
<li>I have uninstalled GPGTools;</li>
<li>I have an iMac (10,1) with 4GiB and running OS X 10.6.8;</li>
<li>I have Mail 4.6;</li>
<li>
<p>I also have Thunderbird 17.0.2 and Enigmail 1.5 (20121227-0013).
The latter are running fine, after I installed MacGPG which uses
GPG 1.4.9 (residing in directory <code>/usr/local/bin/gpg</code>).
All keys are visible and usable.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Quit Thunderbird.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>{END BASELINE}</p>
<p>{START INSTALL} Now I will install the nightly version of
GPGTools (20130111-0015).<br>
Note: Enigmail not shown in the list of applications to be
installed by GPGTools (expected).</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Checking for gnupg: still in
<code>/usr/local/bin/gpg</code>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Opening TB. Enigmail working. Quit TB.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Opening Mail. Warns that there are no keys. Strange.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>{CURRENT_ERROR}</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Opening GPG Keychain Access. Unable to import a whole
keyring.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Switching to Enigmail key management to export keys into
<code>.asc</code> files (TB now open).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>GPG Keychain Access unable to import individual file containing
secret and public keys. Error message:</p>
</li>
</ul>
<pre>
<code>Key Import Failed
Import failed!
Code = 0
Error text:</code>
</pre>
<p>Note: there are approximately three blank lines after the
<code>Error text:</code> section.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Attempting to import same file, however with <code>txt</code>
extension instead of <code>asc</code>. Failure: same error
message.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Inspection of the ASCII armored key file reveals standard format
used, with <code>-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----</code>and
<code>-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----</code> tags.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Trying to import an ASCII armored key file with only the public
keys. Failure: same error message.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Trying to import an ASCII armored key file with only one public
key. Failure: same error.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Trying one public key import with TB closed (quit). No dice.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Trying <code>Fix GPGTools</code> button in GPGPreferences (quit
GPG Keychain access).Output:</p>
</li>
</ul>
<pre>
<code>GPGTools fix result:
[gpgtools] Fixing Enigmail...
[gpgtools] Fixing Preferences...
[gpgtools] Fixing Services...
[gpgtools] Fixing Mail...
* Writing '4' to 'com.apple.mail'...
* Writing '4' to 'com.apple.mail' as 'marcoantonioassfalkdeoliveira'...
* Writing '4' to 'com.apple.mail'...
* Fixing permissions in '/Users/marcoantonioassfalkdeoliveira/Library/Mail/'...
* Fixing permissions in '/Library/Mail/'...
[gpgmail] is installed
[gpgmail] Setting the correct permissions in '/Library/Mail/Bundles//GPGMail.mailbundle'...
[gpgmail] Warning: could not patch GPGMail. No UUIDs found.
[gpgtools] Fixing GPG...</code>
</pre>
<ul>
<li>Opening GPG keychain access. No keys listed. Trying import.
Failure importing TXT and ASC extension ASCII armored key file with
one public key. Same error message.</li>
</ul>
<p>{END INSTALL}</p>
<p>Not sure what to do next. Request further instruction. :-)</p>
<p>I hope I have supplied sufficient information.</p>
<p>Thank you for your help and attention.</p>
<p>Marco A. A. de Oliveira</p></div>Marco A A de Oliveiratag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/234384602013-01-14T10:00:34Z2013-01-14T10:00:35ZGPG on mac OSX 10.6.8 (snow leopard wont work<div><p>I have also been having a similar problem. Manually installing
MacGPG2 helped a bit -- I'm now able to import my keys in GPG
Keychain Access, but Enigmail on TB 17 still can't seem to find my
keys. I get stuck in a loop on the No OpenPGP Key Found (this,
despite GPG Keychain Access clearly showing my key), so I select
the import option and select my key file, but am immediately
redirected back to the No OpenPGP Key Found page. I've also tried
reinstalling Enigmail.</p></div>Phillip Aldaytag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/234384602013-01-18T16:39:32Z2013-01-18T16:39:32ZGPG on mac OSX 10.6.8 (snow leopard wont work<div><p><strong>Marco</strong>, thanks for your detailed description.
That is helpful. I'm still a bit puzzled that you are still
experiencing issues importing your keys. I am aware that this was
an issues but it should not be with the latest GPG Keychain Access
nightly. Currently that is <a href=
"https://nightly.gpgtools.org">GPG Keychain
Access-179n.dmg</a>.</p>
<p>Could you simply re-try with that latest GPG Keychain Access
nightly?</p>
<p><strong>@Philip:</strong> This sounds indeed very strange. Could
you please install both MacGPG2 and GPG Keychain Access from the
nightly page? MacGPG2 has received a couple of fixes in the last
few days. Let us know if they are sufficient to solve your problem.
As for Enigmail not accepting your keyring, maybe you could also
try getting in touch with the enigmail folks: <a href=
"http://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/forum/">http://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/forum/</a></p>
<p>Please provide feedback how things go and we'll further look
into it.</p></div>Stevetag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/234384602013-01-22T00:11:39Z2013-01-22T00:11:40ZGPG on mac OSX 10.6.8 (snow leopard wont work<div><p>I installed everything from the nightly page after reading
elsewhere that they were a few long standing bugs in the release
builds that had been largely fixed in the nightlies. My last post
was using the then current nightlies; I haven't yet updated
again.</p>
<p>I figured out what was causing at least part of the problem on
my end: one of the keys had been revoked. However, things were just
failing silently and not giving any warning about me attempting to
use a revoked key and the key was not showing as revoked on that
computer. Speaking of which -- the key was revoked (on another
computer) by a stray double click on the revoke file without asking
for confirmation.) So, for me the fix I would like to see is more
verbosity in the error conditions. (Where) Should I file an issue
about this?</p>
<p>As far as the Enigmail bit goes, I suspect it was half of this
issue with the revoked key -- the revoked key was failing silently,
which is what put me in that little loop; I'm not sure how this was
interacting with loading my keychain. Both keys (the revoked one
and its non-revoked successor) were present in my keychain, which
could not be loaded; however Enigmail had no trouble loading the
valid key directly from file.</p>
<p>I unfortunately no longer remember the exact order of everything
I did, but the common issues for my problem appear to be (1)
dealing with revoked keys [which is probably somewhat related to
the issues refreshing from key servers I've read about elsewhere]
and (2) silent failure / lack of verbosity. The nightly builds were
definitely a step in the right direction. Any word on when there'll
be a new (point) release?</p></div>Phillip Aldaytag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/234384602013-01-23T18:16:03Z2013-01-23T18:16:03ZGPG on mac OSX 10.6.8 (snow leopard wont work<div><p>Hi Phillip,</p>
<p>thanks for the detailed description! This might be very helpful
for others.</p>
<p>the GPGMail 1.4.1 will probably be the last version for Snow
Leopard since we unfortunately don't have the resources to support
10.6 any longer.<br>
There's a very slim chance that we'll backport GPGMail 2.x in the
future, but it's not high on our priority list.</p></div>Luke Letag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/234384602013-01-24T12:03:59Z2013-01-24T12:03:59ZGPG on mac OSX 10.6.8 (snow leopard wont work<div><p>Hi Steve,</p>
<p>Thanks for helping.</p>
<p>I installed the latest GPG Keychain Access nightly (currently
184n) and attempted importing several ASCII armored key files, as I
had in my earlier session, but I was met with the same error
message.</p>
<p>Using the "Fix GPGTools" service in GPGPreferences generated the
same log message, and had no apparent effect on GPG Keychain Access
behavior (as to importing keys).</p>
<p>Given Phillip's description/solution, I checked my keys and none
have been revoked, so I am experiencing a different scenario.</p>
<p>Marco A. A. de Oliveira</p></div>Marco A A de Oliveiratag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/234384602013-01-24T23:36:33Z2013-01-24T23:36:33ZGPG on mac OSX 10.6.8 (snow leopard wont work<div><p>I just gave up as there was no way I could spend anymore time
wasting on<br>
the installation at the moment, which is very disappointing as I
really<br>
wanted GPG on my Mac<br>
When someone gets a break thru I will try again</p></div>Paul Webstertag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/234384602013-01-25T19:33:38Z2013-01-25T19:33:38ZGPG on mac OSX 10.6.8 (snow leopard wont work<div><p>Marco: Please open a new discussion and set it to private. Then
please attach one of the key files giving you trouble so we can
test this and try to reproduce the problem.</p>
<p>Paul: I already responded to you but have not seen any reply so
far from you. You could just retry running the latest nightly of
the <a href="https://nightly.gpgtools.org">GPGTools Installer</a>
and see if it solves your problem. If you're busy you might wanna
re-try later. All we can offer is the latest nightly that has been
working for all 10.6 users so far.</p>
<p>I'm closing this discussion, since it's rather hard, trying to
keep track of separate issues in one single discussion. Anybody
with remaining issues, please open a new discussion and we'll try
to get you fixed.</p>
<p>Best, steve</p></div>Steve