GPG 2.1.0/Win32: keyserver lookup problems

[MichaelQuigley at TheWay.Org]

"Gnupg-users" <gnupg-users-bounces+michaelquigley=theway.org at gnupg.org> 
wrote on 11/08/2014 12:54:30 PM:
> ----- Message from Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> on Fri, 07 Nov 2014 
> 17:32:49 +0100 -----
> 
> To:
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> "Robert J. Hansen" <rjh at sixdemonbag.org>
> 
> cc:
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> gnupg-users at gnupg.org
> 
> Subject:
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> Re: GPG 2.1.0/Win32: keyserver lookup problems
> 
> On Thu,  6 Nov 2014 20:09, rjh at sixdemonbag.org said:
> 
> > getting all different kinds of weird errors, from the keyserver helper
> > not being able to communicate with the outside world, to GnuPG
> 
> Well, there are no more keyserver helpers.  All is done by dirmngr.
> 
> > swearing it's created output but no output file being created (!!), to
> 
> Hmmm, I can't see that.
> 

If your system is trying to write to the Program Files directory, look in 
the VirtualStore. This can be found at 

C:\Users\{YourUserID}\AppData\Local\VirtualStore

I've been bit by several applications where files end up there instead of 
the original location. I forget, but I think this feature was introduced 
in Vista--don't hold me to that.

> > (The "GnuPG insists it's created output, but none exists" -- this one
> > was so surreal that I was seriously considering whether I was
> 
> Sorry, I can't replicate that.  Well, with the fixed version but I
> didn't touched anything relevant in gpg.exe.
> 

Again, check for the results in VirtualStore.

> > So I repeated the same command line.  This time, GnuPG told me the
> > file foo.asc already existed, and did I want to overwrite it?
> 
> Is that some weird Windows symlink setup?
> 

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