--refresh-keys stops working while processing

[David Shaw]

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On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 09:02:30PM +0200, Jens Kubieziel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to update my keyring and did a "gpg --refresh-keys" without
> other options. After processing 194 keys it stopped. I got no error
> message and the last line which was spit out is:
> gpg: Schlüssel C5836F2A: "Christian Franke (Der Spinner) <franke.christian at gmx.de>" Nicht geändert
> 
> After waiting some 10-20 minutes I killed the process. When I retried it,
> the gpg-process stopped at approximately 110 keys. I can reproduce this
> error for every "--refresh-keys".
> What can be the reason for this? (I was only the whole time.)

Do you have any Elgamal signing keys in your keyring?  Refreshing one
of those can take a very long time.

David
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