Re: gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.

[Albrecht Dreß <albrecht dress arcor de>]

Am 30.07.03 15:59 schrieb(en) Pawel Salek:
> I have been trying to import a GPG key for a user and have got an error  
> dialog:
> 
> gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
> gpg: Total number processed: 0

This is just the stdout/stderr output of running gpg in background. I also 
saw this message sometimes. Afaict, it seems to be related to either a 
missing key on the key server or to an overload or timeout with gpg's 
connection to the keyserver, as the "try again later" approach *sometimes* 
works. The gpg man page is rather brief here...

I think I should add at this point that the gpg interface I introduced 
here is really crap and should be replaced by something more attractive, 
preferrably by calling a "specialised" application like gpa or seahorse to 
do the job. Unfortunately, only gpa (which is not a gnome app, although it 
uses the gtk 2 libs) is able to retreive keys from a server, but it's not 
(yet?) possible to call it as a helper app. I already asked the developer 
to add it if possible...

> Clicking on the signature shows:
> 
> The signature could not be verified due to a missing key.
> Validity: The user ID is of unknown validity.
> Owner trust: unknown.
> 
> Can this be easily debbuged? Is it supposed to happen now and then?

Well, this part is simply the result of gpg failing to retreive the key...

Hth, Albrecht.

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