How to fix your damaged gnupg database

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 11:18:14 +0000

Some time ago I had troubles with my gnupg installation. Namely gpg was unable to read keys from my trustdb.gpg. I figured this had something to do with the upgrade to GnuPG 2.1.0.

cd ~/.gnupg
mv pubring.gpg pubring-$USER.gpg
mv secring.gpg secring-$USER.gpg
mv trustdb.gpg trustdb-$USER.gpg
gpg --import pubring-$USER.gpg
gpg --import secring-$USER.gpg
rm pubring-$USER.gpg secring-$USER.gpg
rm trustdb.gpg
mv trustdb-$USER.gpg trustdb.gpg

That’s all for now folks and happy new year!

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How to fix your damaged gnupg database