On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:43:50PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > hi debian-folk, > > i am issuing a warning which might be purely prophylactic, but > i figure it's better than not to mention it. it's about GPG and about > something along the lines of keyring corruption through normal usage. > so read this before you continue using your woody GPG to verify signed > email! > > i don't have many details, let me explain to you what happened > (fortunately i had my keyring backed up): > > throughout this day, i was happily signing my mail with gnupg 1.0.6-3, > the last message i successfully signed was sent 22:16 hours GMT, which > was about 20 minutes ago. > > when i tried to send an email about 10 minutes ago, the signing failed > with the following errors: > > gpg: key A8FA196E: secret key without public key - skipped > gpg: key 3290879A: secret key without public key - skipped > gpg: key 330C4A75: secret key without public key - skipped > gpg: no default secret key: secret key not available > gpg: signing failed: secret key not available > > (the three are all keys i use). > > oh my, i said, and ran to the console to check: > > fishbowl:~> gpg --list-key 330c4a75 > gpg: error reading key: public key not found > fishbowl:~> gpg --list-keys > fishbowl:~> gpg --list-sigs > fishbowl:~> > > and i had at least 1000 public keys in my keyring, and at least 30 > signatures on my 330c4a75 key. they are all gone, the keyring is not > usable anymore, neither public nor private. > > and the worst of all: i did not do *anything* than read mailing lists, > so the only GPG interaction there is automatic fetching of keys from > the keyserver through mutt. > > for the technologically gifted: > > fishbowl:~> gpg --homedir .gnupg.corrupt --list-packets 330c4a75 > gpg: can't open `330c4a75' > > otherwise i am clueless! > > -- > martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) > \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "there are two major products that come out of berkeley: lsd and unix." > one caused me an addiction > -- fyodor
Did you have it on an nfs volume? -- Henning Heinold -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
