<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Werner for your response.</div><div><br></div><div>I am using the <a href="https://github.com/vsajip/python-gnupg">python-gnupg</a> project to manage GPG related operations and I encountered an error where, after key creation, certain lock files remain in the system.</div><div><br></div><div>Thinking that the lock files are left over by the subprocess calls this library makes to contact gpg, I raised the error as a GitHub issue in that library. After examining that issue, the author suggested that the leftover lock files may be a gpg issue and not a library issue. The whole error scenario and reproducibility steps are detailed in <a href="https://github.com/vsajip/python-gnupg/issues/257">that issue</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Request to kindly go through the issue link and check and reflect on it because the left over lock files:</div><div><ol><li>may indicate leaked resources.</li><li>errs on next CLI runs.</li><li>A new subprocess may not behave correctly or simply not run because of the lock files.</li></ol></div><div>Thanks & Regards,</div><div>Suhas</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM Werner Koch <<a href="mailto:wk@gnupg.org">wk@gnupg.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi!<br>
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> I even received a link to phabricator to set my password but opening that<br>
> link brings up a 403 forbidden page.<br>
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Please use a different browser. We are still under hefty DoS and from<br>
time to time we need to lock out some user agent string (browser).<br>
Thank you cheap AI.<br>
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> - Examine whether this bug (possible anomaly) was reported earlier and<br>
> the progress on its remediation.<br>
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BTW, you can do this w/o an account.<br>
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It might be easier for you to report it here here to share the problem<br>
with a lot of other users.<br>
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Salam-Shalom,<br>
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Werner<br>
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-- <br>
The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that<br>
refuse military service. - A. Einstein<br>
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