Hi, On 08/23/2018 10:54 AM, Martin T wrote: > When I start the "gpg --list-secret-keys" with "strace -e open", > then ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg file is not searched.
GnuPG >= 2.1 does not use ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg anymore. Secret keys are now stored in the ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d folder (one file per key). When you say you "moved ~/.gnupg directory from old machine to new one", did you make sure to include the private-keys-v1.d folder? Related question: Do you have a file named "gpg-v21-migrated" in your .gnupg directory? Waiting for your answers, I suspect the following happened: * You were using GnuPG < 2.1 before (1.4 or 2.0), with your private keys in the secring.gpg file. * At some point you upgraded to GnuPG 2.1; GnuPG automatically migrated your keys from the secring.gpg file to the private-keys-v1.d folder (leaving the gpg-v21-migrated file as a marker that the migration occured). * When you moved your .gnupg folder, the private-keys-v1.d folder was somehow left behind (maybe because you didn't know about it). So gpg-agent cannot find your private keys. * Even though you still have a copy of your private keys in the secring.gpg file, GnuPG will not even look at this file, since the gpg-v21-migrated file tells it that the private keys were already migrated. If that's what happened, then simply removing the gpg-v21-migrated file should be enough to trigger a new migration and allow you to get your private keys where the agent expects to find them. I am, however, a little bit concerned by the following: > When I list the secret keys(gpg --list-secret-keys), then the output > is empty. gpg-agent is not running. gpg-agent should be started automatically by gpg as soon as it is needed (such as when you ask for a listing of the secret keys). The fact that the agent is *not* running could indicate a problem in your GnuPG installation, independently of the presence or absence of the private-keys-v1.d folder. Damien
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