lock while verifying?

[John C. Place]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 03:50:17PM -0700, David Ellement wrote:
> I've installed RedHat 6.2 at home, which includes gpg 1.0.1.  When I
> try verifying a signature, it prints out the signature message, and
> then sits spewing out:
> 
>     gpg: waiting for lock (hold by 1091 - probably dead) ...
>     gpg: waiting for lock (hold by 1091 - probably dead) ...
> 
> and doesn't exit.
> 
> What causes this, 
>
gpg dying (or being killed) before it can clear it's locks

> and how do I go about preventing it?
> 
To fix it go into ~/.gnupg and delete the lock file(s) there may be more
than one. I forget the names so please be careful and backup before just
rm-ing away. Ohh yeah make sure gpg is not currently running.

Preventing it is a little tougher, find out what is making gpg die and
report it. I have seen this once so far but I have to admin I do not do
a lot of key management or encryption.

Good luck
John

John C. Place
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