Anne Wilson wrote: > A lockfile seems to have been create yesterday and not released - > possibly due to a crash. The message I see in a console is > > gpg: waiting for lock (held by 6678 - probably dead) ... http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/faqs.html#q6.11 "6.11) I get "gpg: waiting for lock ..." A previous instance of gpg has most likely exited abnormally and left a lock file. Go to ~/.gnupg and look for .*.lock files and remove them. " -- William Hooper