ok found a solution by setting export GPG_TTY=`tty` Thanks -Vincent On Dec 26, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent@massol.net> wrote:

Hi guys,

I'm failing to release 4.4RC1 because of some GPG issue on agent1:

echo "test" | gpg --no-use-agent -o /dev/null --local-user 6D84951A -as - && echo "Passphrase is correct"

generates:

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: "Vincent Massol (Key to sign maven artifacts) <vincent@massol.net>" 2048-bit RSA key, ID xxxxxxxx, created 2011-08-15

can't connect to `/home/hudsonagent/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent': Connection refused pinentry-curses: no LC_CTYPE known - assuming UTF-8 pinentry-curses: no LC_CTYPE known - assuming UTF-8 pinentry-curses: no LC_CTYPE known - assuming UTF-8 pinentry-curses: no LC_CTYPE known - assuming UTF-8

Any idea?

Thanks -Vincent