This one time, at band camp, Nori Heikkinen said: > i've had a problem with gpg ever since my old hard drive stared dying, > about a week ago. i've since transferred all my files to a new hard > drive, and almost everything except for gpg is working. > > all i needed to copy was ~/.gnupg/*, right? > > i can successfully do stuff like `gpg --list-sigs 11e030f1` (my key). > but, i'd like to add a uid, and i got this: > > mikan:~/.gnupg> gpg --edit-key 11e030f1 > Secret key is available. > > pub 1024D/11E030F1 created: 2002-06-23 expires: 2003-06-23 trust: u/u > sub 2048g/3FDAB36F created: 2002-06-23 expires: 2003-06-23 > (1) Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> > (2). Nori Heikkinen <nori@maenad.net> > > Command> adduid > gpg: keyedit.c:1641: menu_adduid: Assertion `pk && sk' failed. > zsh: 21069 abort gpg --edit-key 11e030f1 > > > also, i can't sign any emails. if i try, mutt tells me this: > > gpg: Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug (getkey.c:2030:lookup) > secmem usage: 1632/1632 bytes in 3/3 blocks of pool 1632/16384 > > i'm running gpg from woody, 1.0.7, but upgrading to 1.2.0 reproduces the > error. is this really a bug, or am i crazy? > > thanks again, > > </nori> There was a version incompatibility with gnupg, but I don't remember where the break was - right around 1.07, IIRC, though (either that, or right below it). Let's see . . . try this, it has some attempts to make keys get along: http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2002-October/015287.html The error messages aren't exactly the same, but it looks like it may be related. Good luck. Hard drive failure is a nightmare, isn't it? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | BOFH excuse #364: Sand fleas eating | | steve@lobefin.net | the Internet cables | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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