[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#835045: Bug#835045: Bug#835045: gnupg: cannot edit my key: "secret key parts are not available"
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Tue Dec 6 01:05:56 UTC 2016
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, 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.
closing as requested. Thanks for your earlier report!
--dkg
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