URGENT: GNuPG 1.2.1 - secret keys help

[Paul Richard Ramer]

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Hi,

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:12:00 -0400, Kannan, Aarthi [Tech] wrote:
> Here is the command I use:
> gpg --home /home/gpgfiles --keyring /home/gpgfiles/pubring.gpg --list-secret-keys
> 
> From: Kannan, Aarthi [Tech]
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 11:36 AM
> To: 'gnupg-users at gnupg.org'
> Subject: URGENT: GNuPG 1.2.1 - secret keys help
> 
> Hi,
> I am using gpg1.2.1.
> I created a key using gen-key.
> When I do a -list-keys, it lists my public key fine.
> 
> When I do a -list-secret-key, I get the following error:
> gpg: keyring_get_keyblock: read error: invalid packet
> gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: invalid keyring
> 
> I have read & write access to pubring.gpg, secring.gpg, trustdb.gpg & random_seed.
> 
> Am I missing something here? Can you please help, it's urgent - am stuck on this for a while now!

I think that it means that your secret keyring is corrupted.


- -Paul

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