Re: WARNING! unknown gpg corruption
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:"; net@madduck
>
> "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
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