zlib inflate problem

[markus reichelt]

* Paul Surgeon <surgpub at telkomsa.net> wrote:

> paul at kubuntu: gpg bigfile.pgp
> gpg: fatal: zlib inflate problem: invalid block type
> secmem usage: 1920/3872 bytes

Have you tried redirection? 

gpg < bigfile.pgp > bigfile

Using redirection is the correct way of handling large files
regarding both de- and encryption.

I haven't seen this error myself in connection with large files
though.


> I'm running gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.1 with zlib 1.2.3 on a Kubuntu Breezy
> system. The system that encrypted the data was running gpg (GnuPG)
> 1.4.1 with zlib 1.2.2 on Debian Sarge.

If you can, try decrypting on the same system the data was encrypted.
Looks like you switched to Kubuntu though...

Maybe someone else will come up with some magic that'll help you.

As a last resort, a fresh compile might help using the exact
programme versions you used on the system your data was encrypted on.


> One slightly pissed off first time user who would like to get his
> data back.

I hope you have additional backups. Always test such critical things
extensively on each system affected (I know it's a pain).

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