Why "pinentry-gtk-2" consumes a lot of CPU in RHEL?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • After configuring GPG on a system, the following process started consuming lot of CPU :

    # ps -ef|grep pinen
root      8161 15885 99 Jun24 ?        10-04:58:31 /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2

  • The system is running in text mode(runlevel3). Users do not connect on the console, they are connecting to the system via SSH only.

Environment

  • pinentry-0.8.1-14.el7.x86_64
  • pinentry-gtk-0.8.1-14.el7.x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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