Can't remove 'lock'

[Janusz A. Urbanowicz]

> Folks,
> 
> I'm new to using GnuPG, and I am getting a puzzling error.
> I can list the keys with no trouble, but if I
> try anything else, I get this error:
> 
> 	gpg: waiting for lock (hold by 1295 - probably dead) ...
> 	gpg: waiting for lock (hold by 1295 - probably dead) ...
> 
> This continues indefinitely. It sounds to me like
> it somehow thinks another copy of gpg locked the
> keyrings somehow. In the manual and FAQ, I can't find
> locks anywhere, let alone how to remove them.
> 
> Does anyone know the fix for this?

from the other shell cd into .gnupg and do rm *.lock

Alex
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