kleopatra: An error occurred while fetching the certificates from the backend

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Mittwoch, 7. Januar 2009, Andreas Petzold wrote:
> when opening kleopatra it throws the following error
>
> An error occurred while fetching the certificates from the backend:
> End of file

From the log it seems to 
Maybe one that does not result into anything.
Does it go away if you switch away from external certificates
to internal ones in the search dialog?

> since I've switched to RHEL5 (gnupg2 2.0.8) and kde 3.5.10. I've  
> checked the gnupg log, but haven't found a clue about the cause of the  
> problem. The logfile can be found here
>
> http://tinyurl.com/7alk5h

  4 - 2009-01-07 17:30:54 gpgsm[15650]: looking up issuer at external location
  4 - 2009-01-07 17:30:54 gpgsm[15650]: can't connect to the dirmngr - trying 
fall back
  4 - 2009-01-07 17:30:54 gpgsm[15650]: no running dirmngr - starting 
`/usr/bin/dirmngr'
[client at fd 6 connected]
  6 - 2009-01-07 17:30:54 dirmngr[15651]: permanently loaded certificates: 0
  6 - 2009-01-07 17:30:54 dirmngr[15651]:     runtime cached certificates: 0
  6 - 2009-01-07 17:30:54 dirmngr[15651.0] DBG: -> # Home: ~/.gnupg
  6 - 2009-01-07 17:30:54 dirmngr[15651.0] DBG: -> # 
Config: /home/petzold/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf
  6 - 2009-01-07 17:30:54 dirmngr[15651.0] DBG: -> OK Dirmngr 1.0.0 at your 
service
[client at fd 4 disconnected]
  5 - 2009-01-07 17:30:54 gpg-agent[7363.6] DBG: <- [EOF]
  5 - 2009-01-07 17:30:54 gpg-agent[7363]: handler 0xf347af0 for fd 6 
terminated
  6 - 2009-01-07 17:30:54 dirmngr[15651.0] DBG: <- [EOF]
[client at fd 6 disconnected]

> Please let me know if additional info is required to track down the  
> cause of the problem.

You could try to look enable and look into the dirmngr log.
It might be that this is a superflous messsage.
Do you encounter other problems?

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