On Sunday 05 November 2006 10:37, magicus wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > One new piece of evidence. Running 'gpg --list-keys' returns many lines > > like > > > > $ gpg --list-keys > > gpg: checking the trustdb > > gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=00) > > gpg: keydb_search failed: invalid packet > > > > then correctly lists a few. It looks as though the database is > > corrupt. Now if I knew what it is called, or where it lives, I could > > restore a backup copy. Does anyone know? Thanks > > trustdb.gpg resides in ~/.gnupg, you probably would have previously > backed up that directory in order to replace that file. > Hi, Furlan. Yes, I knew that, but that wasn't where the problem was. It was actually in pubring.gpg and/or pubring/kbx. I restored backups and now all is well. Thanks for trying to help. Anne
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