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help with missing keys
Hi,

I've been using gnupg just fine for a while (gpg, then moved to gpg2,
created new keys), mostly to encrypt/sign password using the pass (zx2c4)
passwordstore.

Then all of a sudden things broke and I cannot decrypt things, even though
keys are apparently there ...

I'd appreciate some help in trying to recover my system. Any clues on what
may be going on? This is Ubuntu 16.04.

$ gpg2 --list-secret-keys
/home/fernan/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
-------------------------------
sec rsa4096/5DCD6D91 2019-01-23 [SC]
uid [ultimate] Fernan Aguero (personal gmail) <
fernan.aguero@gmail.com>
ssb rsa4096/AD08B3BC 2019-01-23 [E]

$ gpg2 --decrypt file.gpg
gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit RSA key, ID AD08B3BC, created 2019-01-23
"Fernan Aguero (personal gmail) <fernan.aguero@gmail.com>"
gpg: public key decryption failed: No such file or directory
gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

$ ls -la ~/.gnupg/
total 156
drwx------ 5 fernan fernan 4096 Jun 19 10:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 139 fernan fernan 20480 Jun 19 10:21 ..
drwx------ 2 fernan fernan 4096 Dec 16 2016 crls.d
-rw------- 1 fernan fernan 9419 Jun 19 10:27 gpg.conf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 fernan fernan 0 Jan 23 10:39 .gpg-v21-migrated
drwx------ 2 fernan fernan 4096 Jan 23 10:51 openpgp-revocs.d
drwx------ 2 fernan fernan 4096 Jan 23 10:51 private-keys-v1.d
-rw------- 1 fernan fernan 43438 May 6 13:59 pubring.gpg
-rw------- 1 fernan fernan 43438 May 6 13:59 pubring.gpg~
-rw-rw-r-- 1 fernan fernan 2408 Jan 23 10:51 pubring.kbx
-rw------- 1 fernan fernan 32 Dec 16 2016 pubring.kbx~
-rw------- 1 fernan fernan 600 Jun 12 12:05 random_seed
-rw------- 1 fernan fernan 0 Oct 29 2012 secring.gpg
srwx------ 1 fernan fernan 0 Jun 19 10:31 S.gpg-agent
-rw------- 1 fernan fernan 1280 May 9 14:11 trustdb.gpg


--
fernan