Mailing List Archive: possible GPG problems

Hi,

Just started using GPG, and I seem to be having some problems. I'm
using GPG 0.4.5, on a Linux system with GLIBC 2.0.106, compiled with EGCS 1.1b.
Currently it doesn't seem that GPG wants to --clearsign any document, it
refuses my passphrase (and yes, I am using the correct passphrase), another
problem is it occasionally seems to have locking problems (a previous process
didn't release it's lock properly, usually I just delete the lock file and
everything proceed normally.) I wonder if the --clearsign problem is also
related to problems I'm having with mutt 0.95i, I haven't yet been able to
get mutt and gpg to work together properly, even though I'm able to encrypt
and sign messages with no problem with gpg from the command line.

(yeah, maybe it is a little early to include the fingerprint once I haven't
quite gotten GPG to work properly right.)

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Dale Harris <rodmur@csuchico.edu> http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~rodmur/
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"D.A. Harris" <rodmur@ecst.csuchico.edu> writes:

> using GPG 0.4.5, on a Linux system with GLIBC 2.0.106, compiled with EGCS 1.1b.
> Currently it doesn't seem that GPG wants to --clearsign any document, it

you va a "clearsign" in your ~/.gnupg/options?

> refuses my passphrase (and yes, I am using the correct passphrase), another
> problem is it occasionally seems to have locking problems (a previous process

Locking is quite new - needs more testing.

> didn't release it's lock properly, usually I just delete the lock file and

That is the way I suggest. I don't like to remove stale lockfile
because the directory may be on a remote machine and then there is no
way to check for a running process which owns this lock.

> related to problems I'm having with mutt 0.95i, I haven't yet been able to

I still use 0.93i (1998-07-10) - I really should check with Thomas
how to make it work (again).

Werner