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gpg: Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug (g10.c:1433:main)
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Description

Release: gnupg-1.2.6

Environment

Blade2000/Solaris/SparcOS5

Description

NEXTLab2:/user/thsim> gpg --list-keys

gpg: Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug (g10.c:1433:main)
secmem usage: 0/0 bytes in 0/0 blocks of pool 0/32768
Abort

NEXTLab2:/user/thsim>

Fix

Unknown

Event Timeline

This is the "make sure we've dropped root privs" assert.

Are you by any chance running gpg in an environment where the real user ID is no the effective user ID - for example with a suid(0) shell? Please run a
id -u; id -ur
to check

No reponse for a year so closing this report. Although 1.2 is not longer supported.