looking for assistance tracking down why i don't have the ability to run gpg from the command line

[charlie derr]

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I'm running debian 10 buster (upgraded recently from stretch if that
matters) and i use KDE. I haven't yet tried to logout of my desktop
environment completely (and just use a native console), but I thought
I would see if any of you had any ideas. Here's the problem:

ni at quark:~/.ssh$ gpg --list-keys
gpg: checking the trustdb
gpg: waiting for lock (held by 22009) ...
gpg: waiting for lock (held by 22009) ...
gpg: waiting for lock (held by 22009) ...
^C
gpg: signal Interrupt caught ... exiting

ni at quark:~/.ssh$ ps aux | grep 22009
ni        7740  0.0  0.0   6076   892 pts/6    S+   11:21   0:00 grep
22009
ni       22009  2.0  0.2  89404 78536 ?        RL   02:51  10:30 gpg
- --batch --no-sk-comments --status-fd 104 --no-tty --charset utf8
- --enable-progress-filter --exit-on-status-write-error --display :0
- --logger-fd 108 --with-colons --list-keys --
4E2247974AA5A23A5C92BB4DBB8B3D7331A9367F
ni at quark:~/.ssh$ kill 22009
ni at quark:~/.ssh$ gpg --list-keys
gpg: checking the trustdb
gpg: waiting for lock (held by 28999) ...
gpg: waiting for lock (held by 28999) ...
gpg: waiting for lock (held by 28999) ...

as you can see, killing the offending process doesn't work (as it
respawns immediately)

The reason this is important to me right now is because I have a new
laptop and I'm trying to transfer my keys to it. I have an email from
this list sent by Robert J. Hansen on 9/14/2016 that has excellent
instructions (which I've used in the past for this purpose) but the
1st command in those instructions:

gpg --armor --export

dumps a lot of output to the command line but never "finishes" (and my
guess is that it's the same lock that's preventing that command from
completing).

  thanks so very much in advance for your time,
         ~c

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Charlie Derr   Director, Instructional Technology 413-528-7344
https://www.simons-rock.edu Bard College at Simon's Rock
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