"Waiting for lock....."

[Richard Ibbotson]

Hi

> > gpg: waiting for lock (held by 2676 - probably dead) ...
> > [this line repeats itself until I interrupt]
> >
> > I don't have a PID numbered 2676.
>
> Probably in a former session, gpg (or your whole PC) crashed so
> that lockfile remains until you manually clean it.

I get the same thing when I run 'gpg --refresh-keys'.  GnuPG version 
1.4.7 and 1.4.6 ......

gpg: requesting key 5706A4B4 from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net
gpg: waiting for lock (held by 1945 - probably dead) ...
gpg: waiting for lock (held by 1945 - probably dead) ...
gpg: waiting for lock (held by 1945 - probably dead) ...
gpg: waiting for lock (held by 1945 - probably dead) ...

So, if it's reproducible then it has to be a bug of some sort ?



-- 
Richard