24-hour lockout

[William Hooper]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> A lockfile seems to have been create yesterday and not released -
> possibly due to a crash.  The message I see in a console is
>
> gpg: waiting for lock (held by 6678 - probably dead) ...

http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/faqs.html#q6.11

"6.11) I get "gpg: waiting for lock ..."

A previous instance of gpg has most likely exited abnormally and left a
lock file. Go to ~/.gnupg and look for .*.lock files and remove them. "

-- 
William Hooper