5 - 2009-01-08 17:29:06 gpg-agent[31643.6] DBG: -> ERR 67108881 No secret key <GPG Agent>

Chris cpollock at embarqmail.com
Sat Jan 10 02:16:39 CET 2009


On Friday 09 January 2009 07:02:52 Werner Koch wrote:
> On Fri,  9 Jan 2009 00:37, cpollock at embarqmail.com said:
> > What would cause this to be displayed in the log? My secret key has been
> > imported and I can sign messages. After signing a message this error
> > disappears. Any idea what is causing this?
>
> There is a gpg-agent command HAVEKEY which is used to check whether an
> X.509 key is available.  The error message may come from there.
>
> Or if you try to decrypt or sign an CMS message without having
> information on the key used.
>
> Thus this all pertains to X.509/CMS and thus to gpgsm.  It might be
> possible that you see this if you use --enable-ssh-support.  OpenPGP
> (gpg2) should not use the agent in this way.  To further check you should
> look back in the log for the actual command send to the agent.  This
> will be a line with "gpg-agent[31643.6]" in it.  The first number in
> brackets is the PID of the agent and the second one the file descriptor
> of the connection.
>
>
> Salam-Shalom,
>
>    Werner
Thank you for the reply Werner, the error seems to have gone away now and it 
seems to be working correctly.  I did notice one error I'd made and that was a 
failure to import my secret key when setting this new version up though 
secring.gpg was in my .gnupg folder.

Thanks
-- 
Chris
KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C

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