On Friday 03 November 2006 19:51, William Hooper wrote: > 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. " > Thanks, William. Actually, I found them a short while ago, but it's not that simple. I logged out to give gpg a clean start, but found that it spawned lockfiles then took 99% cpu time, getting no further and I had to kill it. I've even tried removing gpg and all related packages, then reinstalling them, but the problem's still there. Anne
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