I broke KGpg on SuSE 11.2

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Installing SuSE 11.2. Ran KGpg the first time, all went well. But I wanted to use my existing keys, not new ones, so I nuked the newly created pubring.gpg, secring.gpg, trustdb.gpg and symlinked the older ones into /home/andy/.gnupg.

Now when I run KGpg as user andy the icon bounces up and down, but nothing happens. Doing ps -A|grep gpg shows the process, but nothing exists on the screen.

I’ve tried nuking, reinstalling etc, with a reboot after each nuke, no change.

I ran it as root, it runs correctly. So there is a permissions problem somewhere:

  • /usr/share/applications/kde4/kgpg.desktop is rw-r–r-- root but so are all the other .desktops.

  • The desktop calls the appplication with kgpg %U, which implies there is a .conf or rc file somewhere setting the users.

  • I located /usr/share/kde4/apps/kgpg/kgpg.rc, but it doesn’t mention users or permissions.

  • I located /usr/bin/kgpgconf] but it is a binary.

  • I located /usr/share/kde4/config.kcfg/kgpg.kcfg, no mention of users.

But I removed all three, upgraded kGpg and tried again. No change.

I then commented out cross-correlation in /home/andy/.gnupg/gpg.conf and tried again. No change.

I’ve tried all of the following without success:

  • Nuke \home\andy .gnupg and try again
  • Nuke \home\andy .gnupg, copy the /root/.gnupg over, reset owner and permissions to andy:users 0755 and try again

I guess I can run it as root, but I’d really rather fix this. Of course I know that I’ll figure it out as soon as I postthis but… :frowning:

Thanks in advance,
Andy Lavarre
alavarre(with the email address)gmail.com

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Well, like I said:

Finally I uninstall, reboot, and manually delete what is left over including:**
/home/andy/.kde4/share/config/kgpgrc
/root/.kde4/share/config/kgpgrc
/home/andy/.kde4/share/config/session/kgpg_10a0313633000126003216200000029000042_1260032970_23467
**
all of which I had missed before. Then reinstalled kGpg and …
It works!

So now I try symlinking the keys again, and again it breaks. This time, nuke /home/andy/.gnupg/ and /home/andy/.kde4/share/config/kgpgrc (the other two files no longer exist and there is no other kgpg session file) and restart kGpg. TBTG this works.

This time I specify /data/comms/crypto/…/ in response to the setup question of “Where is your conf file?” and then import the pubring and secring from the same location.

OK, so now I can nuke .gnupg, right?

*Wrong. *Same problem all over again.

This time, nuke /home/andy/.gnupg/ and /home/andy/.kde4/share/config/kgpgrc. Then nuke the keys in .gnupg but do not delete the folder.

Now restart kGpg. And this works. But the keyrings are still stuck in /home/andy/.gnupg/

Well, enough for today. But I would really like to have the keyrings reside in the /data/… partition, not the /home partition.

Cheers, Andy Lavarre