Invalid packet/keyring. How to find out what's responsible?

[Kevin Gallagher]

That'll do it! Thanks.


On 10/19/2016 02:22 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Hi Kevin--
>
> On Wed 2016-10-19 12:45:42 -0400, Kevin Gallagher wrote:
>> I've been seeing this error lately both with one of my local GPG
>> keyrings, and with apt.
>>
>>     gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=2d)
>>     gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: Value not found
>>     gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=2d)
>>     gpg: /tmp/tmp.rObzKgJEj5/pubring.gpg: copy to
>>     '/tmp/tmp.rObzKgJEj5/pubring.gpg.tmp' failed: Invalid packet
>>     gpg: error writing keyring '/tmp/tmp.rObzKgJEj5/pubring.gpg':
>>     Invalid packet
>>     gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=2d)
>>     gpg: error reading '-': Invalid packet
>>     gpg: import from '-' failed: Invalid packet
>>
>> In the latter case, I solved it by exporting all my keys and importing
>> them back again. But that doesn't work this time:
>>
>> apt-key exportall says: gpg: key export failed: Invalid keyring
>>
>> How can I figure out which specific key is corrupted or responsible for
>> this, so I can repair my keyring?
> what version of apt?  what version of gpg?  it sounds to me like you
> have some public keyring that is ascii-armored instead of raw.  you
> might manually (individually) test /etc/apt/trusted.gpg and
> /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/*.gpg to see whether they're ascii-armored or
> not.
>
> for example:
>
>     grep 'BEGIN PGP' /etc/apt/trusted.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/*.gpg
>
> hth,
>
>         --dkg