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

[David]

On 14/08/2019 16:30, charlie derr wrote:
> 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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Hello Charlie,

On Debian 10 busty - which I have now - you have "root" I simply log
into root open the home folder go to user name folder  list hidden files
- then select the .gpg folder and copy that to a USB. You can do a
weekly backup to USB.

Then you can add it to whatever you want - but be in root to change the
ownership to whatever the users called.

when I do a --list-users t lists all my 186 keys :)

David


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