24-hour lockout

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Fri Nov 3 19:54:37 UTC 2006


On Friday 03 November 2006 19:51, William Hooper wrote:
> 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. "
>
Thanks, William.  Actually, I found them a short while ago, but it's not that 
simple.  I logged out to give gpg a clean start, but found that it spawned 
lockfiles then took 99% cpu time, getting no further and I had to kill it.

I've even tried removing gpg and all related packages, then reinstalling them, 
but the problem's still there.

Anne
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