From 885a3a25b345a259f5e688a48899919bca44c8be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "tlimoncelli@stackexchange.com" Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:44:11 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Document some common GPG error messages. --- README.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1a7e0b2..c49a113 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -635,6 +635,20 @@ rm -rf /tmp/NEWMASTER Also shred any other temporary files you may have made. +Some common errors: +========================================= + +`gpg: filename: skipped: No public key` -- Usually this means there +is an item in `keyrings/live/blackbox-admins.txt` that is not the +name of the key. Either something invalid was inserted (like a +filename instead of a username) or a user has left the organization +and their key was removed from the keychain, but their name wasn't +removed from the blackbox-admins.txt file. + +`gpg: decryption failed: No secret key` -- Usually means you forgot +to re-encrypt the file with the new key. + + Using Blackbox without a repo ===========================