GPG wants to check trustdb every day

Walt Mankowski waltman at pobox.com
Mon Dec 27 14:43:43 CET 2004


On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 10:40:30AM +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> When did you import 0x98645519?

I don't know how to determine that, but judging from the other keys
around it in the output of "gpg --list-keys" I'd say it was sometime
in 2000 or 2001.  I've noticed those sorts of error messages before
but they never seemed to cause any problems.

> 
> From the keyserver output, it would seem that there is an oddity with the 
> signatures:
> pub  1024R/98645519 1998-10-14 Jeremy Blosser
>      Key fingerprint = 1D D8 8E 3C 3E 19 74 EB  2F 70 EA 79 4B 50 D3 B5
> sig  0x10  98645519 1998-10-13  [selfsig]
> uid                            Jeremy Blosser
> sig  0x10  98645519 1998-10-13  [selfsig]
> 
> Does removing this key eliminate the check-trustdb problem?
> 
> Maybe if the keyholder edits the key (e.g. set the passphrase again (same one, 
> just repeat it), his copy of gpg will put a new self-sig on the key to solve 
> this problem?
> 
> > As far as I know I haven't changed anything.  /usr/bin/gpg was last
> > changed on 2004-02-23, and ~/.gnupg/options was changed on 2003-07-30.
> >
> > I've tried running "gpg --rebuild-keydb-caches" but that didn't help.
> > Anyone know what else might be causing this?
> 
> I'd blame the key before gpg.

I'm doubtful, since it's been on my keyring for years without any
problem.

Walt
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