Error Generating ElGamal Key

Werner Koch wk at isil.d.shuttle.de
Wed Feb 24 09:50:34 CET 1999


"Matthew M. Copeland" <dyelar at rdl.designlab.ukans.edu> writes:

> gpg: waiting for lock (hold by 21285 - probably dead) ...

Can you please try to figure out what process 21285 used to be and
have a look at the timestamps of ~/.gnupg/* - ist the lockfile too
old.  

If you don't have a NFS installation you can simply delete the
lockfile.  (look for ~/.gnupg/*.lock with this pid in it)


   Werner



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