[Bug 1862430] Re: gpg in focal doesn't find my private keys

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Normally, gpg2 does a one time migration of keyrings from v1 format to
v2 format, and also most recent gpg2 no longer reads/loads private keys
directly and only via gnupg-agent.

Also, if one ever run gpg2 on a gpg1 directory, the migration of keys
happened and if one adds any new private keys using gpg1 they will never
make it into the gpg2 format.

Normally gnupg-agent is started as a user-session systemd unit gpg-
agent.socket / gpg-agent.service. But it could be something else on your
system.

To troubleshoot this further, what is the output of:

echo $GPG_AGENT_INFO

gpg1 --list-secret-keys


** Changed in: gnupg2 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  gpg in focal doesn't find my private keys

Status in gnupg2 package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I recently upgraded to focal, and gpg can no longer find my secret
  keys:

  ~$ gpg --list-secret-keys
  ~$

  attached is the output of 'strace -e openat,access' for the above
  command, which I found puzzling and might be a clue if one is needed.

  Please do reach out if you need more info.

  Thank you.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: gnupg 2.2.17-3ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-12.15-generic 5.4.8
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-12-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu16
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Fri Feb  7 23:04:00 2020
  DistributionChannelDescriptor:
   # This is a distribution channel descriptor
   # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
   canonical-oem-somerville-xenial-amd64-20160624-2
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-02-24 (713 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20160624-10:47
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: gnupg2
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-02-05 (2 days ago)

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