How to fix "ERROR key_generate 3355453" / "GENKEY' failed: IPC call has been cancelled"

Peter Lebbing peter at digitalbrains.com
Tue Sep 4 22:56:28 CEST 2018


On 04/09/18 18:31, Fiedler Roman wrote:
> /usr/bin/gpgv --status-fd 2 --homedir /proc/self/fd/nonexistent --keyring sign.pub /proc/self/fd/0

You missed my point. You are not including a slash in the keyring
argument, so gpgv is looking for it in the homedir. To quote the gpgv
man page again:

>        --keyring file
>               Add  file  to the list of keyrings.  If file begins with a tilde
>               and a slash, these are replaced by the HOME  directory.  If  the
>               filename  does  not  contain a slash, it is assumed to be in the
>               home-directory ("~/.gnupg" if --homedir is not used).

And this works:

$ gpgv --keyring ./key.gpg data.gpg

> Splitting up the message gives me
> 
> 000001-001.pk_enc
> 000002-018.encrypted_mdc

This is an encrypted message. gpgv can't do anything with it.

HTH,

Peter.

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