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--list-keys output truncated and loops repeatedly
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I'm using gpg in Windows 7 Enterprise and when I run --list-keys the output to the console is the same 4 keys in a loop for exactly 10 seconds. If I redirect the output to a file gpg --list-keys > keys.txt it writes out all the keys without duplication and terminates immediately.

I do not know how you could reproduce this without my keys. The console output is this same text repeated over and over again:

pub   C:\Users\[removed]\AppData\Roaming\gnupg\pubring.gpg
---------------------------------------------------
pub   [removed]
      [removed]
uid           [ unknown] [removed]
uid           [ unknown] [removed]
uid           [ unknown] [removed]
sub   [removed]

pub   [removed]
      [removed]
uid           [removed]

pub   [removed]
      [removed]
uid           [removed]
uid           [removed]
sub   [removed]

pub   dsa1024 2009-01-18 [SC] [expired: 2010-01-13]
      4B2D52B0771FA33A1896B699DA5131795788087D
uid           [ expired] VideoLAN Release Signing Key (2009)

Of course I will remove that VLC key... but for now I've left it in and unmasked it here case it is relevant.

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gpg (GnuPG) 2.3.8, libgcrypt 1.10.1

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raysatiro created this task.Oct 20 2022, 10:11 PM
• werner added a subscriber: • werner.Oct 21 2022, 6:25 AM

Are you using the keyboxd ? ("use-keyboxd" in common.conf) or is this using the default pubring.kbx.

This is apublic key and thus no need to remove it because you published its existance. It is also expired.

raysatiro added a comment.Oct 21 2022, 7:17 AM

I don't have common.conf but I do have pubring.kbx. I meant I plan to remove that key from my keyring because it's like a decade old and expired, but I figured maybe it was somehow related to this bug since it's the last key shown, so I've left it in.

• werner triaged this task as Low priority.Oct 27 2022, 8:26 AM
• werner added projects: can't replicate, gnupg (gpg23), Windows.

There is a utility named kbxutil which can be sued to dump the pubring.kbx file without any post-processing by gpg. I would check whether there are any other keys after the VideoLAN key. iirc, kbxutil ist not commonly installed; you may need to build the software yourself or copy the pubring.kbx to Linux and check it here.

• werner added a project: gnupg24.Dec 13 2022, 11:21 AM
• werner closed this task as Resolved.Dec 16 2022, 3:57 PM
• werner claimed this task.

@raysatiro: Please re-open if you are able to give us a reproducer

• werner moved this task from Backlog to done on the gnupg24 board.Jan 5 2024, 12:05 PM