Your message dated Mon, 05 Dec 2016 20:05:56 -0500 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: [pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#835045: Bug#835045: gnupg: cannot edit my key: "secret key parts are not available" has caused the Debian Bug report #835045, regarding gnupg: cannot edit my key: "secret key parts are not available" to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: gnupg Version: 1.4.20-6 Severity: important Hello! I'm trying to update my gpg key expiry date, but am having difficulties: polya:~ $ gpg --edit-key 0x59D03CC92BA0FEAE Secret key is available. pub 4096R/0x59D03CC92BA0FEAE created: 2014-10-29 expires: 2016-10-28 usage: SC trust: ultimate validity: ultimate sub 4096R/0x14A58BD97483A28B created: 2014-10-29 expires: 2016-10-28 usage: E sub 4096R/0x695C429316C07BFE created: 2014-10-29 expires: 2016-10-28 usage: S [ultimate] (1). Julian Gilbey <[email protected]> [ultimate] (2) Julian Gilbey <[email protected]> [ultimate] (3) Julian Gilbey <[email protected]> [ultimate] (4) Julian Gilbey <[email protected]> gpg> expire Changing expiration time for the primary key. gpg: WARNING: no user ID has been marked as primary. This command may cause a different user ID to become the assumed primary. Please specify how long the key should be valid. 0 = key does not expire <n> = key expires in n days <n>w = key expires in n weeks <n>m = key expires in n months <n>y = key expires in n years Key is valid for? (0) 2y Key expires at Tue 21 Aug 2018 17:33:49 BST Is this correct? (y/N) y gpg: secret key parts are not available gpg: make_keysig_packet failed: general error gpg> And yet I do have my secret key available; "toggle" shows it quite happily, for example. So I'm a little stymied. It might be that gpg2 will fix this issue, but maybe not. Any ideas? Thanks, Julian
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--- Begin Message ---On Mon 2016-08-22 17:46:08 -0400, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:23:09PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote: >> On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 18:36, [email protected] said: >> >> > gpg: secret key parts are not available >> >> > And yet I do have my secret key available; "toggle" shows it quite >> > happily, for example. >> >> I guess you took your primary key offline (replaced by a stub key) or >> you are using smartcard based keys. Use gpg -K to check the key. For >> example an old copy of my key listed with gpg 1.4: > > Hi Werner, > > Ah, thanks, that would be it! Now I have to go and locate my primary > key (having had no recollection of doing this...). > > Feel free to close this bug report. closing as requested. Thanks for your earlier report! --dkg
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