After thinking about this a little more, I wondered whether the trust db may have been corrupted (even a "list-keys" took a long time, displaying messages about the trust db. Some Googling led me to the "-- update-trustdb" for gpg. It took a while to run, but it seems to have fixed the problem.
You can probably close this bug. Thanks, .....Ron -- Ron Murray <r...@rjmx.net> PGP Fingerprint: 4D99 70E3 2317 334B 141E 7B63 12F7 E865 B5E2 E761
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