hi, i have a pubring.gpg of exactly the same size of pubring.gpg~ (about 600ko), except it is entirely full of zeros, which makes gpg output these sort of nice messages (anonymised for the bug report):
$ gpg --update-trustdb gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=00) gpg: keyring_search failed: invalid packet gpg: failed to rebuild keyring cache: invalid packet gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=00) gpg: keydb_search failed: invalid packet gpg: public key of ultimately trusted key XXXXXXXX not found gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=00) gpg: keydb_search failed: invalid packet gpg: public key of ultimately trusted key XXXXXXXX not found gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, classic trust model gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=00) gpg: keydb_search_first failed: invalid packet gpg: validate_key_list failed i'm not sure how i got there (i *think* that was after running gpg with --check-trustdb, but not sure). copying ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg~ back to ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg did the trick. cheers, piem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]