Gpg broken again

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 27 March 2009 16:26:59 Rex Dieter wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > There really must be something wrong in the Fedora packages, although
> > I've no indication whatsoever where to look.  All I know is the
> > _something_ causes corruption.  I can't even tell whether it is caused by
> > kmail or by kgpg.  I checked with Thunderbird, and that also could not
> > use the keyring.
> >
> > I've got this working again, but I had to rename the whole .gnupg folder
> > and start a completely new one, importing the signatures that I know I
> > need.  It only seems to happen on Fedora boxes.  Sorry I can't report
> > anything more helpful, but it has to be corruption in one of the files.
> >
> > If you get any ideas about checks that can be made, please tell me.
>
> Eww... ok, time to eat my own dog food.  I'll switch my primary MUA to
> kmail (from thunderbird), and start using gpg signing more, and see
> where I end up.
>
Don't forget to backup your .gnupg folder first :-)  Whatever the problem is, 
it can go along without a problem for months, but when it fails it's totally 
without warning.

Anne
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