On Monday 30 Jan 2006 08:22, Graham wrote: > I have Gpg 1.4.2 installed by default on my Mepis system. When I > tried to delete a key from my keyring both from the command line and > through Kgpg I got this error: > > gpg --delete-keys 0xCB1AA7B0 > > pub 1024D/CB1AA7B0 2003-11-18 Robert Blayzor (INOC) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Delete this key from the keyring? (y/N) y > gpg: /home/graham/.gnupg/pubring.gpg: copy to > `/home/graham/.gnupg/pubring.gpg.tmp' failed: file read error > gpg: deleting keyblock failed: file read error > gpg: 0xCB1AA7B0: delete key failed: file read error [snipped]
I don't know why it did it, but solved the problem by naming pubring.gpg and secring.gpg with a suffix "old" (eg pubring.gpg.old), then doing an import on each file. It asked me for my passphrase on each of my (old) keypairs but imported them fine. I can now import and export keys to my hearts content! As I said, I don't know what was wrong with the old keyrings, but its the simple things we tend to overlook.... HTH anyone with the same problem! -- Graham
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