Package: gnupg Version: 2.1.18-6 Severity: important Hi,
this is a very similar case to #811146 which supposedly is resolved, but it isn't: Relevant ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf lines: keyserver hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net keyserver-options no-honor-keyserver-url Relevant ~/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf lines: hkp-cacert /usr/share/gnupg/sks-keyservers.netCA.pem $ gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.18 ... $ dpkg -l gnupg ... ii gnupg 2.1.18-6 amd64 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement Searching with dirmngr directly succeeds (see above bug report), but gnupg fails with General error $ gpg -vvv --debug-level 10 --search-key 58E11BB1E414D9AD gpg: using character set 'utf-8' gpg: enabled debug flags: packet mpi crypto filter iobuf memory cache memstat trust ipc clock lookup extprog gpg: DBG: [not enabled in the source] start gpg: DBG: chan_3 <- # Home: /home/norbert/.gnupg gpg: DBG: chan_3 <- # Config: /home/norbert/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf gpg: DBG: chan_3 <- OK Dirmngr 2.1.18 at your service gpg: DBG: connection to the dirmngr established gpg: DBG: chan_3 -> GETINFO version gpg: DBG: chan_3 <- D 2.1.18 gpg: DBG: chan_3 <- OK gpg: DBG: chan_3 -> KEYSERVER --clear hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net gpg: DBG: chan_3 <- OK gpg: DBG: chan_3 -> KS_SEARCH -- 58E11BB1E414D9AD gpg: DBG: chan_3 <- ERR 1 General error <Unspecified source> gpg: error searching keyserver: General error gpg: keyserver search failed: General error gpg: DBG: chan_3 -> BYE gpg: DBG: [not enabled in the source] stop gpg: random usage: poolsize=600 mixed=0 polls=0/0 added=0/0 outmix=0 getlvl1=0/0 getlvl2=0/0 gpg: secmem usage: 0/65536 bytes in 0 blocks $ Thanks Norbert -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.10.0 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gnupg depends on: ii gnupg-agent 2.1.18-6 ii libassuan0 2.4.3-2 ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8.1 ii libc6 2.24-10 ii libgcrypt20 1.7.6-1 ii libgpg-error0 1.26-2 ii libksba8 1.3.5-2 ii libreadline7 7.0-2 ii libsqlite3-0 3.16.2-3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 Versions of packages gnupg recommends: ii dirmngr 2.1.18-6 ii gnupg-l10n 2.1.18-6 Versions of packages gnupg suggests: pn parcimonie <none> pn xloadimage <none> -- no debconf information