On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 12:58:52PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Control: tags 831510 + unreproducible help > > Hi Kurt-- > > On Sat 2016-07-16 14:07:44 -0400, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > I was running --refresh-keys, I pressed ^C, I tried to start it > > again, and I get: > > gpg: signal Interrupt caught ... exiting > > > > kurt@intrepid:~$ gpg2 --refresh-keys > > gpg: keybox '/home/kurt/.gnupg/pubring.kbx' created > > > > And of course my pubring.gpg didn't exist anymore. > > > > I've had this happen to me several times (with gnupg 1.x too) over > > the years, and it's of course not reproducable. In this case I > > still had a .tmp file I could restore from. > > I'm sorry to hear about this, it's certainly a bad misbehavior -- if > there was a way to reproduce the problem i'd be happy to hear about it. > as it stands, i'm not sure what to do about it. Any suggestions would > be welcome!
My guess is that there is a race condition. I would guess that there are times the file doesn't exist and pressing ^C at that time does the wrong thing. For instance it could move the file to the .bak file and then create a new (or tmp) file, and you would end up with having no file for some time. Kurt
