import of GPG key doesn't work and doesn't give an error message

[Andrew Gallagher]

On 17 Nov 2024, at 07:26, Marco Moock via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users at gnupg.org> wrote:
> 
> Am 16.11.2024 um 17:34:31 Uhr schrieb Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users:
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>> rjh at sarah ~ % gpg --recv-keys
>> 0x020898F03962F8B76B42D9F1E805C860F0E3CCB5 --verbose
>> gpg: Note: '--verbose' is not considered an option
>> gpg: "--verbose" not a key ID: skipping
>> gpg: key E805C860F0E3CCB5: no user ID
>> gpg: Total number processed: 1
> 
> I dong see those line starting with gpg: when running the same command.

A question to both Robert and Marco:
Where did you get your gnupg(s) from?

In the above transcript it looks like it is querying keys.openpgp.org, which sometimes distributes keys without userids. Depending on where you sourced gnupg (upstream or a distribution) and whether you had a copy of the key already, gnupg may or may not accept the downloaded key.

If you change the keyserver to pgpkeys.eu or keyserver.ubuntu.com it should work. 

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