[ERROR] gpg: waiting for lock

[Daniel Carrera]

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Alright.  I now know that this error is because GnuPG creates the file
~/.gnupg/secring.gpg.lock and should remove it when its done.  For some=20
reason it hasn't done that a few times.  Is this something I should worry=
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about?  Is it safe to just delete this file and move on?

Daniel.


On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 05:01:47PM -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Does anyone know what the following error means?
> I've been getting it on occassion.  Some times it helps if I try a=20
> different keyserver, but some times (like now) it seems to make no=20
> difference.
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> $ gpg --recv-key 0x57548DCD
> gpg: waiting for lock (held by 2813 - probably dead) (deadlock?) ...
> gpg: waiting for lock (held by 2813 - probably dead) (deadlock?) ...
> gpg: waiting for lock (held by 2813 - probably dead) (deadlock?) ...
> gpg: waiting for lock (held by 2813 - probably dead) (deadlock?) ...
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> Thanks,
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> Daniel Carrera         | OpenPGP fingerprint:
> Graduate TA, Math Dept | C678 4F28 6418 6A62 F186 98FC 9E04 B9A0 0FEB CEC3
> UMD  (301) 405-5137    | http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/pgp/key.html



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Daniel Carrera         | OpenPGP fingerprint:
Graduate TA, Math Dept | C678 4F28 6418 6A62 F186 98FC 9E04 B9A0 0FEB CEC3
UMD  (301) 405-5137    | http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/pgp/key.html

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