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Yagato

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Registered: 2024-03-13

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[SOLVED] Can't create or delete GPG secret key

I can't create or delete my secret key. I am sure that the key exists because it is listed in

gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format=long

and I use the name as the parameter to the remove secret key function but the output is as follows.

gpg --delete-secret-key name
sec  rsa4096/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP 2024-01-04 name (description) <example@email.com>

Delete this key from the keyring? (y/N) y
This is a secret key! - really delete? (y/N) y
gpg: deleting secret key failed: No such file or directory
gpg: deleting secret subkey failed: No such file or directory
gpg: name: delete key failed: No such file or directory

I removed the .gnupg file and tried to create a new key. I answered every prompt but when the key started to generate two errors were thrown at me.

Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? O
We need to generate a lot of random bytes...
gpg: agent_genkey failed: No such file or directory
Key generation failed: No such file or directory

Last edited by Yagato (2024-04-09 12:07:44)

Yagato

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Registered: 2024-03-13

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] Can't create or delete GPG secret key

Problem solved by adding the following line to the ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf

pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt

and reloading the connect agent with

gpg-connect-agent reloadagent /bye