martin f krafft wrote: > I really don't think this is a grave bug. Enigmail works fine with > gnupg 1.4.1. If you leave something as complex as thunderbird > running while you upgrade the software, you are asking for trouble. > > Anyway, > > < vorlon> of course it's grave, no software should be corrupting > your data just because it's open at the time of upgrade. > "complexity" is no excuse. > > the bug does mention that ~/.gnupg had to be removed. After the > upgrade, were you unable to use gpg as well? Were you able to use > enigmail after killing thunderbird and removing the lock file. > No.
> Or, put differently: are we actually dealing with data corruption > here? Could you please give some more information about the > ~/.gnupg directory after the upgrade? Or is this all really a matter > of inconvenience? > Unfortunately, it was about 1:30 am when I figured this all out. The problem is that there were extra files in ~/.gnupg, including a lock file and what appeared to be a temp file for modifications to the public keyring (I don't recall exactly what the files were). I accidentally wiped the ~/.gnupg from before the restore, but I will try to duplicate it this afternoon and report back. In short, any use of gnupg, at least through enigmail, to verify a mail message completely locked t-bird. > Please be more verbose in your bug reports. > Sorry :-) -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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