[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#860745: Bug#860745: Please suggest a fix for "server $SOMETHING is older than us" message
Werner Koch
wk at gnupg.org
Fri Apr 21 16:52:20 UTC 2017
On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 18:53, dkg at fifthhorseman.net said:
> I wouldn't want to encourage people to restart the daemons -- i'd rather
> encourage them to terminate them and let the new versions be restarted
Right.
> gpg: WARNING: server 'dirmngr' is older than us (2.1.17 < 2.1.18). Run 'gpgconf --kill dirmngr' to terminate it. A new instance will be restarted as needed.
We already have some hints messages printed in --verbose mode, like:
gpg: further info: Tor is not properly configured
So I would suggest to print
gpg: further info: A restart can be forced using "gpgconf --kill all"
> Alternately, it might be nice for gpg to try to effect the restart
> itself (though i worry that could get into a loop, since gpg itself is
Not a good idea in case you have other sessions running or you need the
cache.
Shalom-Salam,
Werner
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