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@@ -46,6 +46,33 @@ below): input-side-spec.org (DRAFT, four decisions open). * Archsetup Open Work +** TODO [#B] calendar-sync fails headless after every boot until authinfo is unlocked :bug:dotfiles:gpg: +:PROPERTIES: +:LAST_REVIEWED: 2026-10-04 +:END: +Found in the 2026-10-04 velox health check. The calendar-sync timer (every 10 minutes) +failed on every run from the 2026-09-29 boot onward (711 journal errors, last success +2026-09-27) with "Decryption failed, Bad session key". The feed URLs live in +=~/.authinfo.gpg= (dotfiles =common/=), which is symmetric AES256. The batch Emacs +the timer runs can't answer a passphrase prompt, so the sync fails until something +interactive caches that passphrase in gpg-agent. The agent's 400-day cache TTL means +it holds once entered, but every reboot starts cold. + +Re-encrypting to the GPG key alone doesn't fix it. It only swaps which passphrase +has to be typed per boot, and on 2026-10-04 ratio's agent had no GPG key cached at +all (its sync works only on the cached symmetric passphrase), so the switch would +break ratio until the key is unlocked there. + +The fix that actually makes it headless: install =pam-gnupg= so login presets the +key passphrase into gpg-agent, then re-encrypt authinfo to the =c@cjennings.net= key +(B832F070). That needs the key passphrase to match the login password, or a decision +to make it match. pam-gnupg is three pieces, and all three are required: add +=allow-preset-passphrase= to =gpg-agent.conf= (the current config lacks it, and +without it the preset is refused), list the encryption subkey's keygrip in +=~/.pam-gnupg=, and add the =pam_gnupg.so= auth and session lines to the login PAM +stack. Do it on both daily drivers. Re-encrypt by piping decrypt into +encrypt, never via plaintext on disk, and verify by comparing plaintext hashes. + ** TODO [#C] Closed tasks pinned to the agenda by a live planning line :chore:quick:solo: :PROPERTIES: :LAST_REVIEWED: 2026-09-25 |