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If I log in my account (osx 10.15.6), I get from the start-gpg-agent.app an error message:
error "sh: /usr/local/bin/gpg-agent: Bad CPU type in executable" number 126
How can I fix it? Apple support recommend to change the default shell to zsh. But this not change the error.
Most probably you have gpg-agent installed in a 32-bit version. macOS 10.15 only supports 64-bit programs, so it tells you the CPU type in the executable is not supported.
The fix is to reinstall gpg-agent in the 64-bit version.
You can check the type of executable by running the following in the Terminal:
file /usr/local/bin/gpg-agent
Most probably it will say:
/usr/local/bin/gpg-agent: Mach-O executable i386
Here "i386" means that it is compiled for a 32-bit CPU architecture.
After replacing gpg-agent with the 64-bit version, you should see an output like:
/usr/local/bin/gpg-agent: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
file /usr/local/bin/gpg-agent -- if it lists the type as "Mach-O executable i386", it's 32-bit only. To work under Catalina, it should be "Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64" (or "Mach-O universal binary" including that).
Sep 22, 2020 at 21:46
yq, I'm not familiar with Mac system, can I ask how I can update it from 32-bites to 64-bites? I raised a new question here: stackoverflow.com/questions/70972303/…