Package: gnupg Version: 2.2.5-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? A freshly installed buster, a new user. The user tries to import a secret key in a clear-sign format * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? gpg --import F00265E2.asc * What was the outcome of this action? A "not changed@ message and "error sending to agent" * What outcome did you expect instead? Proper installation of course. The same command succeeds if executed by root. Logs Follow: " albert@kiwi:~/backup/.gnupg$ gpg --import F00265E2.asc gpg: key E03927B1F00265E2: 3 signatures reordered gpg: key E03927B1F00265E2: "Albert van der Horst (manipal) <alb...@spenarnc.xs4all.nl>" not changed gpg: key E03927B1F00265E2/E03927B1F00265E2: error sending to agent: No such file or directory gpg: error building skey array: No such file or directory gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: unchanged: 1 gpg: secret keys read: 1 " ------------------- " root@kiwi:/home/albert/backup/.gnupg# gpg --import F00265E2.asc gpg: key E03927B1F00265E2: 3 signatures reordered gpg: key E03927B1F00265E2: "Albert van der Horst (manipal) <alb...@spenarnc.xs4all.nl>" not changed gpg: key E03927B1F00265E2: secret key imported gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: unchanged: 1 gpg: secret keys read: 1 gpg: secret keys imported: 1 " This suggests a privilege related or PATH related problem. The secret key was exported from gnu version 1.4. I was able to use gpg to sign a message after copying from root/.gnupg to <user>/.gnupg which confirms that the import was succesful. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gnupg depends on: ii dirmngr 2.2.5-1 ii gnupg-l10n 2.2.5-1 ii gnupg-utils 2.2.5-1 ii gpg 2.2.5-1 ii gpg-agent 2.2.5-1 ii gpg-wks-client 2.2.5-1 ii gpg-wks-server 2.2.5-1 ii gpgsm 2.2.5-1 ii gpgv 2.2.5-1 gnupg recommends no packages. Versions of packages gnupg suggests: pn parcimonie <none> pn xloadimage <none> -- no debconf information