[wellylug] gpg: signing failed: secret key not available

Daniel Pittman daniel at rimspace.net
Tue Oct 14 15:06:37 NZDT 2008


Atom Smasher <atom at smasher.org> writes:
> On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Adam Bogacki wrote:
>
>>> gpg: NOTE: old default options file `/home/adam/.gnupg/options'
>>> ignored gpg: skipped "886EF91C": secret key not available gpg:
>>> signing failed: secret key not available
> ==============
>
> why is it looking for options in "/home/adam/.gnupg/options"?

Because that /used/ to be the name of the configuration file, before
they decided that '~/.gnupg/gpg.conf' was a better name and deprecated
the former.

Renaming the file should be fine, as the syntax didn't change.

Regards,
        Daniel



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