Silent failure when keyboxd is not running, no error or warning
Lee
lee at zoo.dev
Fri Sep 5 15:29:38 CEST 2025
Hello, hope you're all doing well!
Today I noticed when trying to list my private keys with
`--list-secret-keys` that nothing appeared. I was very confused.
After some debugging with `--list-secret-keys --debug-all`, this line
stood out:
gpg: DBG: chan_4 <- ERR 134217755 Not found <Keybox>
After re-verifying all my secret keys were really there on storage, and
I had a pubring.kbx, I began to look through `gpg.conf` and `common.conf`.
Behold, there was a `use-keyboxd` there. Deleting this line, I could use
my keys again.
It would have been really nice for gpg to report the internal error I
pasted above, as "Unable to communicate with keyboxd", instead of a
silent failure causing me to have a minor heart palpitation :)
Thank you all for your super hard work on GPG!
Lee
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