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I started getting the error below after upgrading to gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.21 .
gpg: signing failed: Timeout
gpg: signing failed: Timeout
This was confusing at first, but the timeout was caused by gpg showing a password prompt that takes the full screen of the terminal, and after a period of time, it returned to the command line showing the timeout error.
I didn't notice the password prompt at first because I was working on multiple terminals and only saw the timeout error at the end.
Another error that I encountered earlier was:
gpg: signing failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
gpg: signing failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
This way caused by missing `GPG_TTY`, simply pass it inline `GPG_TTY=$(tty) foobar`.
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