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I was editing some blog posts over ssh, when I ran into this error. gpg was failing to sign my commits. I realized that this was because I could not answer to the desktop keyring over ssh, but had no idea how to fix it.

Error

This is the error message I was seeing.








        

gpg failed to sign the data ssh

The fix

The fix ended up being pretty simple, but quite a ways down this stack overflow post. This environment variable tells gpg that we are not logged into a desktop and it does not try to use the desktop keyring, and asks to unlog the gpgkey right in the terminal.








        

export GPG_TTY=$(tty)

The log in menu

This is what it looks like when it asks for the passphrase.

enter your passphrase to unlock your gpg key

EDIT-another way

So this did not fix the issue on Arch BTW, and I have seen it not work for wsl users either. This did work for me and reported to have worked by a wsl user on a github issue.








        

echo '' | gpg --clearsign

This will unlock the gpg key then let you commit.