Setting up a new laptop - importing keyrings

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 12 January 2009 23:20:33 Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I'm setting up a new netbook, and have copied into the .gnupg folder
> > my keyrings and associated files from this laptop.  Kgpg lists the
> > keys correctly, but all is not well.  When I try to set keys for
> > signing and encryption I get the endless searching bar, as Chris
> > described a few days ago.
>
> I know nothing of Kpg, but perhaps we can determine whether the issue
> is with gpg or Kgpg and that might narrow down where to look.
>
> > I considered starting from an empty keyring and importing signatures
> > as they arrive in kmail, but I think the problem is that I don't
> > know how to get the secret key recognised.
>
> Are your secret keys listed by "gpg --list-secret-keys" ?  

Yes, they are.  All CLI commands work fine.

> If so, then
> the problem isn't with the keyrings.  It could be with Kgpg or the
> gpg-agent setup (IIRC, that was what the problem a few days ago was).

I think something is preventing communication between kmail and the keyrings, 
but only in some circumstances.  While I can't, in the Fedora installations, 
set my key to encrypt mail, I can read the encrypted mail that comes to me.

I don't think that agent is the problem - it holds the passphrase for the 
correct amount of time.  This is the agent conf file:

pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt
no-grab
allow-mark-trusted
default-cache-ttl 3600
# GPGConf disabled this option here at Fri 13 Jul 2007 10:47:33 IST
# log-file socket:///home/anne/.gnupg/log-socket

###+++--- GPGConf ---+++###
default-cache-ttl 3600
allow-mark-trusted
debug-level basic
log-file socket:///home/anne/.gnupg/log-socket
###+++--- GPGConf ---+++### Sun 11 Jan 2009 08:44:43 GMT
# GPGConf edited this configuration file.
# It will disable options before this marked block, but it will
# never change anything below these lines.

It may be relevant to mention that on my Mandriva laptop I use keychain to 
help with remote administration.  There, when I open konsole for the first 
time each morning, I'm asked for the passphrase.  I always then see

 * Warning: can't find annew at kde.org; skipping
Identity added: /home/anne/.ssh/id_dsa (/home/anne/.ssh/id_dsa)
can't connect to `/home/anne/.gnupg/log-socket': Connection refused

If this (the last line) isn't relevant to this particular problem I'll deal 
with it in a separate thread later.  It doesn't appear to stop anything 
working.  On that particular laptop everything works as expected except for 
automatically importing keys for signed emails.

Anne
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