thanks for your comments daniel. I've tried to reproduce this as well and couldn't either. I started with a Xenial VM that had an older version of gnupg2 than 2.1 installed. I generated a key, and verified I could see it with both gpg and gpg2 as well as in seahorse.
I then upgraded to gnupg2 2.1 and checked with gpg2 --list-secret-keys and the import process worked properly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1565963 Title: gpg secret keys not migrated after upgrade to gnupg 2.1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg2/+bug/1565963/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs