Re: [Fwd: [Duplicity-talk] 0.5.18 weird GPG error ([key_I_dont_mention] unusable public key)]

[Edgar Soldin]

don't worry about the trust issue .. we solved that already (see the archive). 
I just wanted the oserror solved if possible in the next 0.5.x release. 

also, there was a short talk about patching the setup.py 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/duplicity-talk/2009-07/msg00022.html
what do you think?

thanks alot ...ede

> This patch will fix the waitpid() issue, but not the bad key issue.  I'm
> going to have to chase that one a bit.  If its trusted in his keyring
> then it should work.
> 
> Edgar Soldin wrote:
>> Ken,
>>
>> did you read this? I also experienced the
>>  OSError: [Errno 10] No child processes
>> and am therefore still using 0.5.17 ... Maybe you could consider modifying 
>> (or removing?) the 0.5.18 patch?
>>
>> thanks ede
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [Duplicity-talk] 0.5.18 weird GPG error ([key_I_dont_mention]       
>> unusable public key)
>> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:38:38 -0400
>> From: Andrew Kohlsmith (Mailing List Account) <address@hidden>
>> Reply-To: address@hidden,    Discussion of the backup program duplicity      
>> <address@hidden>
>> To: address@hidden
>>
>> Good morning,
>>
>> I am running into an unusual problem with duplicity. It fails when doing a 
>> full backup, stating that a key has no indication that it really belongs to 
>> the owner, followed by an "encryption failed: unusable public key" error.
>>
>> The problem is that the fingerprint it's giving me as being the problem is 
>> NOT 
>> one that I have specified!
>>
>> My command line:
>> # duplicity --full-if-older-than 26W --archive-dir 
>> /var/data/duplicity/archivedir/test --encrypt-key KEYONE --encrypt-key 
>> KEYTWO 
>> --encrypt-key KEYTHREE /var/data/cvs file:///var/data/duplicity/test         
>>                                     
>>
>> obviously KEYONE, KEYTWO and KEYTHREE are my GPG keys. (I encrypt to my 
>> personal key, a backup key, and a company key.)
>>
>> The backup fails almost immediately with the following message:
>>
>> Last full backup date: none                                                  
>>              
>> Last full backup is too old, forcing full backup
>> Exception in thread wait26030:
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/threading.py", line 436, in __bootstrap
>>     self.run()
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/threading.py", line 416, in run
>>     self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/duplicity/GnuPGInterface.py", line 
>> 668, in threaded_waitpid
>>     process.returned = os.waitpid(process.pid, 0)[1]
>> OSError: [Errno 10] No child processes
>>
>> Exception in thread wait26027:
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/threading.py", line 436, in __bootstrap
>>     self.run()
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/threading.py", line 416, in run
>>     self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/duplicity/GnuPGInterface.py", line 
>> 668, in threaded_waitpid
>>     process.returned = os.waitpid(process.pid, 0)[1]
>> OSError: [Errno 10] No child processes
>>
>> GPGError: GPG Failed, see log below:
>> ===== Begin GnuPG log =====
>> gpg: FF873F7F: There is no indication that this key really belongs to the 
>> owner
>> gpg: [stdin]: encryption failed: unusable public key
>> ===== End GnuPG log =====
>>
>> Now the curious part is that that key, FF873F7F, is NOT one I have specified 
>> on 
>> my command line.  After some initial debugging, I have found the source of 
>> that key.  It's a "sub" key on my personal signing/encryption key:
>>
>> # gpg --list-key EAF7ACB0
>> pub  1024D/EAF7ACB0 2001-08-27 Andrew Kohlsmith <address@hidden>
>> uid                            Andrew Kohlsmith <address@hidden>
>> uid                            Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account) 
>> <address@hidden>
>> sub  2048g/FF873F7F 2001-08-27
>>
>> Now I don't have any problem with this key with anything else; why is 
>> duplicity unhappy?
>>
>> -A.
>>
>>
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