gpg: Oops; keylost!

[David Shaw]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 12:46:10PM +0000, James Davis wrote:
> David Shaw wrote:
> 
> > Can you send what GnuPG prints after that error?  It indicates what
> > happened.
> >
> > In general, though, your pubring.gpg is probably corrupt.
> 
> E:\gnupg>gpg.exe --list-keys
> E:/gnupg\pubring.gpg
> --------------------
> gpg: Oops; key lost!
> node 00051CD0 01/00 type=secret-key
> node 00051DC0 00/00 type=user-id  "James Davis (Security Manager)
> <james at jolt.co.uk>" ....
> node 00051ED8 00/00 type=signature  class=13 keyid=544DF19E ts=1108383008
> node 00052190 00/00 type=secret-subkey
> node 00054528 00/00 type=signature  class=18 keyid=544DF19E ts=1108383009
> pub  1024D/BC93CFBB 2005-02-14 James Davis (Jolt.co.uk Security Manager)
> <james at jolt.co.uk>
> sub  1792g/D3795FEB 2005-02-14
> 
> pub  1024D/A02964CF 2005-02-21 Keith Hardy <keith at jolt.co.uk>
> sub  2048g/B1B3AD73 2005-02-21

Yep.  You have a secret key in your public keyring.  Note the first
line after the "key lost" message.

David