gpg: Sorry, no terminal at all requested - can't get input

Question

When decrypting I get following error:

$ eyaml decrypt -s 'ENC and the key goes on here'

.gnupg --quiet --no-secmem-warning --no-permission-warning --no-tty --yes --decrypt)
failed with: gpg: Sorry, no terminal at all requested - can't get input

I have checked my keys, everything is in order. At this point I am out of options.

Answer 1

If you configured Automatic Git commit signing with GPG on macOS and you see this error comment out no-tty in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf as suggested by Fahl-Design.

This will also allow you to generate new GPG keys following the GitHub instructions for new keys.

Answer 2

You need to remove the option --no-tty

--no-tty
Make sure that the TTY (terminal) is never used for any output. This option is needed in some cases because GnuPG sometimes prints warnings to the TTY even if --batch is used.

Answer 3

For those who are encountering this error from scripts that are running with no TTY available, adding --batch to the GPG command line, or batch to a line in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf can make the problem go away.