[MRELEASE-1114] Broken interaction of maven-gpg-plugin with Gpg4win Kleopatra since 3.0.0-M6

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0-M6, 3.0.0-M7, 3.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.1
• Assignee: Slawomir Jaranowski
• Reporter: Falko Modler
• Created: 07/Feb/23 21:28
• Updated: 19/May/23 06:52
• Resolved: 18/May/23 21:31

Description

Before https://github.com/apache/maven-release/pull/125, when gpg-plugin runs, it triggered the cert password prompt window of Kleopatra but now it fails right away with no pinentry.

[INFO] [INFO] --- gpg:3.0.1:sign (sign-release-artifacts) @ mrelease-1114 ---
[INFO] gpg: signing failed: No pinentry
[INFO] gpg: signing failed: No pinentry
[INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [INFO] Total time:  1.130 s
[INFO] [INFO] Finished at: 2023-05-03T02:47:31+02:00
[INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-gpg-plugin:3.0.1:sign (sign-release-artifacts) on project mrelease-1114: Exit code: 2 -> [Help 1]
[INFO] [ERROR] 
[INFO] [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[INFO] [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[INFO] [ERROR] 
[INFO] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[INFO] [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  3.622 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2023-05-03T02:54:16+02:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:3.0.0:perform (default-cli) on project mrelease-1114: Maven execution failed, exit code: 1 -> [Help 1]

See also https://github.com/apache/maven-release/pull/125#issuecomment-1160398620 and the following comments.

WORKAROUND

init the GPG agent:

• with Maven: mvn gpg:sign
• or more basically in pure shell: echo "test" | gpg --clearsign

then you can run mvn release:perform again and it will be successful (it's perfectly supported by maven-release-plugin to retry the perform step)

Issue Links

• causes: MGPG-90 Signing fails with 3.0.1: "no pinentry"
• is blocked by: MSHARED-1072 executeCommandLineAsCallable hangs forever if InputStream is used
• is blocked by: MRELEASE-1121 Bump maven-shared-utils from 3.3.4 to 3.4.2
• is depended upon by: MPOM-407 Bump maven-release-plugin from 3.0.0-M7 to 3.0.1
• relates to: MRELEASE-1091 Use non-interactive (batch) mode for forked Maven process
• links to: PR #189