Lots of "packet(6) too short" errors with gpg 2.1

Patrick Brunschwig patrick at enigmail.net
Thu Oct 30 16:36:43 CET 2014


On 30.10.14 16:22, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
> After migration to gpg 2.1, I get lots of "packet(6) too short" when
> doing e.g. gpg --list-keys. Furthermore, gpg exits with exit code=2.
> 
> Is there anything I'm doing wrong, or are these old v3 keys that are
> not supported anymore?

Sorry to reply to myself. I exported all public and secret keys using
gpg 2.0, moved away my old .gnupg directory and re-imported all keys.
Now I don't have any error messages anymore.

Is there a recommended strategy to move from gpg2.0 to gpg2.1 key storage?

-Patrick




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