Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have no idea how to fix this, but I've (more than a few times) tarred > up my MailDir hierarchy, then compressed+encrypted it with GPG (both > using asymmetric and symmetric ciphers) quite successfully. Any > particular reason you need to use afio rather than tar?
I used to use tar, but afio handles corrupt data more gracefully, is more efficient, is able to gpg each file separately, allows plaintext control files in the same archive as the gpged files, and is designed from the start around taking a list of pathnames to archive. There is no widespread ecc program to avert media errors, so gpging each file separately is safer. cpio is compatible and widely enough available. Also, the args make more sense to me. My experience; YMMV. But if it's afio's fault, then I might very well switch to cpio. I think it's a combination of afio and gpg, though. It happens quite a bit more on certain files, including /var/lib/dpkg/available. However, it is intermittent. It never happens when afio does not call gpg. Script started on Sat Dec 7 22:00:27 2002 $ find available available-old | afio -oz -Z -U \ -P gpg \ -Q --batch \ -Q --no-options \ -Q --homedir -Q $homedir \ -Q --always-trust \ -Q --no-auto-check-trustdb \ -Q --recipient -Q "${recip:?}" \ -Q --debug-all -Q -vv \ -Q -e \ -3 0 \ "$ofile" I have the gpg debug output, but it is 1MB and I thought I'd spare people's mailboxes. gpg: DBG: fd_cache_open (/root/tmp--xyzzy-nichi/a-tn-qhome-qout--2002-12-07 -Sat-22-00-46-262072/pubring.gpg) not cached gpg: DBG: iobuf-1.0: open `/root/tmp--xyzzy-nichi/a-tn-qhome-qout--2002-12- 07-Sat-22-00-46-262072/pubring.gpg' fd=3 gpg: DBG: iobuf-1.0: underflow: req=8192 gpg: DBG: iobuf-1.0: underflow: got=963 rc=0 gpg: DBG: parse_packet(iob=1): type=6 length=418 (search.keyring.c.962) gpg: DBG: mpi_alloc(1024) gpg: DBG: mpi_alloc_limb_space(1024) gpg: DBG: mpi_alloc(160) gpg: DBG: mpi_alloc_limb_space(160) gpg: DBG: mpi_alloc(1024) gpg: DBG: mpi_alloc_limb_space(1024) gpg: DBG: mpi_alloc(1024) gpg: DBG: mpi_alloc_limb_space(1024) gpg: DBG: free_packet() type=6 gpg: DBG: mpi_free gpg: DBG: dummy m_size called gpg: DBG: mpi_free_limb_space of size 0 gpg: DBG: mpi_free gpg: DBG: dummy m_size called gpg: DBG: mpi_free_limb_space of size 0 gpg: DBG: mpi_free gpg: DBG: dummy m_size called gpg: DBG: mpi_free_limb_space of size 0 gpg: DBG: mpi_free gpg: DBG: dummy m_size called gpg: DBG: mpi_free_limb_space of size 0 gpg: DBG: parse_packet(iob=1): type=13 length=27 (search.keyring.c.962) gpg: DBG: free_packet() type=13 gpg: DBG: fd_cache_open (/root/tmp--xyzzy-nichi/a-tn-qhome-qout--2002-12-07 -Sat-22-00-46-262072/pubring.gpg) not cached gpg: DBG: iobuf-2.0: open `/root/tmp--xyzzy-nichi/a-tn-qhome-qout--2002-12- 07-Sat-22-00-46-262072/pubring.gpg' fd=6 gpg: DBG: iobuf-2.0: underflow: req=8192 gpg: DBG: iobuf-2.0: underflow: got=963 rc=0 gpg: DBG: parse_packet(iob=2): type=6 length=418 (parse.keyring.c.382) gpg: DBG: mpi_alloc(1024) gpg: DBG: mpi_alloc_limb_space(1024) gpg: DBG: mpi_alloc(160) gpg: DBG: mpi_alloc_limb_space(160) gpg: DBG: mpi_alloc(1024) gpg: DBG: mpi_alloc_limb_space(1024) gpg: DBG: mpi_alloc(1024) gpg: DBG: mpi_alloc_limb_space(1024) gpg: DBG: parse_packet(iob=2): type=13 length=27 (parse.keyring.c.382) ... -- judy m. down <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------------------------------------------------------- Get your free email address at http://www.blackburnmail.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]