Dear Listers, I am a plain user of gnupg and new to this list. SO I would like to greet you first.
Now the problem: I found some discussions about the "invalid packet (ctb=2d)" thing but none of it helped me. I have been running gpg with the same keys since 2003. I started to use them on SuSE 7 and Win2K. Then I moved to Debian without a problem. Now I had a disc crash recently and switched to ubuntu. When I try to import or use my old keys I get this: ---snip---- gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=2d) gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: eof gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=2d) gpg: /home/seb/.gnupg/pubring.gpg: copy to `/home/seb/.gnupg/pubring.gpg.tmp' failed: invalid packet gpg: error writing keyring `/home/seb/.gnupg/pubring.gpg': invalid packet gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=2d) gpg: keydb_search failed: invalid packet gpg: key 09D50FE7: public key "[User ID not found]" imported gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=2d) gpg: keydb_search failed: invalid packet [GNUPG:] IMPORTED 0C1E3D6C09D50FE7 [?] [GNUPG:] IMPORT_OK 1 CF32CCC3BD5E61F3E8722A9D0C1E3D6C09D50FE7 gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=2d) gpg: error reading `/home/seb/.gnupg/secring.gpg': invalid packet gpg: import from `/home/seb/.gnupg/secring.gpg' failed: invalid packet gpg: Total number processed: 0 gpg: imported: 1 [GNUPG:] IMPORT_RES 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---snap---- The keys where transfered from my external HD (backup) with all the other stuff in my home directory. Some weeks ago I tried import a copy the keys I still had on a W2K machine at work. Same error. Today I thought I will use the weekend to fix the problem. One of my guesses is that there are conflicts between my new ubuntu and the old stuff I got from my backup done on Debian Sarge?!? So I wanted to erase gpg completly and then reinstall it. But there are billions of dependencies ... What should I do? Thanks in advance and cheers, Seb _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
