pass / password store no longer works on my mac and hangs terminal

Question

I recently started using password store (https://www.passwordstore.org/) as my password manager on my mac and everything was working flawlessly for weeks. Now everytime I try to use it, it hangs the terminal. This happens whenever I try to show a password or insert a new password. The only way to escape this is to interrupt the program with Ctrl + C. Now I can't access all of my passwords. Does anyone know what might be going on or how to fix it?

Answer 1

I understand it can be confusing. Such problem can occur due to inconsistent state of GPG agent. To fix it, you'd better refresh GPG agent by running

gpgconf --kill gpg-agent

and then reload the shell: either exit and reopen the shell, or run exec <YOUR_SHELL>. Replace <YOUR_SHELL> with your shell program, such as bash, zsh, etc.