[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#835045: Bug#835045: gnupg: cannot edit my key: "secret key parts are not available"

Julian Gilbey jdg at debian.org
Mon Aug 22 21:46:08 UTC 2016


On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:23:09PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 18:36, jdg at debian.org 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.

Best wishes,

   Julian



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