waiting for lock...

[Andreas Siegert]

Quoting Lars Hecking (lhecking@nmrc.ie) on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 04:32:53PM +0000:
> 
>  Hi Andreas :)
> 
> > what would that mean:
> > 
> > $ gpg --no-verbose --batch --with-colons --list-keys  2CAE19B6
> > gpg: waiting for lock (hold by 1407 - probably dead) ...
> > gpg: waiting for lock (hold by 1407 - probably dead) ...
> > gpg: waiting for lock (hold by 1407 - probably dead) ...
>  
>  Just go into ~/.gnupg and delete all .#* files. They must have been
>  left behind when the program exited abnormally.

Thanks! It was not the .#l* file but trustdb.gpg.lock that caused it!
The 1407 was putting me on the wrong trck, I was thinking PID here...

cheers
afx

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