On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:31:47PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:32:05PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a gpg key, and under my old install I could get gpg to work with > > mutt. Now mutt and gpg won't work together. Apparently gpg can't find my > > key, or something like that. The errors I get every time I try to send a > > signed email are: > > gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=00) > > gpg: read_keyblock: read error: invalid packet > > gpg: enum_keyblocks failed: invalid keyring > > gpg: no default secret key: invalid keyring > > gpg: signing failed: invalid keyring > > I'd suspect that this is just gpg - not mutt. To eliminate mutt, try > signing some file - if that fails too, then the problem is most likely > with gnupg.
Ok, it's a gnupg problem. > > I don't know how to get it work now. I kept all my dotfiles from my old > > install (I was running testing, but now that I'm running a server I'm > > running stable-- don't know if that's pertinent or not), so everything > > should run the same as before, right? > > So: you used to run testing, but now run stable. This would imply that > you have downgraded gnupg: stable has version 1.0.6-3, testing has > 1.2.2-1... Right. > Perhaps the newer version (=older for you) of gnupg may have done things > to your keyring that the older (=newer for you) version doesn't > understand. Or perhaps there were key types added in gnupg.. > > Did you generate your gnupg key with the testing version of gnupg? The > stable version might not understand that sort of key. I don't think so. IIRC, I generated the key *before* I upgraded to testing, so the key was generated with stable's gpg. But, OTOH, the past ~8 months are kinda fuzzy (for reasons I'd rather not go into), so I'm not entirely sure when I upgraded. *shrug* Sorry. > I'd suggest studying gnupg's changelog for details; if it is only the > keyring format that has changed, then you should be able to export all > the keys (using gnupg/testing) and re-create them using gnupg/stable. > [make backups until ankle-depth first though. Keys are important] How do I run testing apps in stable? I don't want to upgrade and then downgrade again. Can I just run the testing version of gpg in a stable system? If so, at that rate I could run metalog, too. (I love metalog, but it's only in testing, not stable, so I'm stuck with syslog-ng. :b) Anyway... Is it possible to run kind of a hybrid system? TIA. -- Vikki Roemer Homepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ Linux is like a wigwam: no Windows, no Gates, Apache inside. PGP fingerprint: 0A3E 0AE4 CCD9 FF31 B4BB C859 2DE1 B1D8 5CE0 1578 Keyserver: http://pgp.mit.edu/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(?) s: a--- C++++(++) UL++++ P+ L+++>++++ E W++ N+ o? K- w--() O? M? V?(-) PS+(+++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5 X-() R*(?) tv-- b+++(++) DI+ D--(?) G e-(*)>+++++ h! r% x? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
