• Registered: 2010-01-17
  • Posts: 2

Topic: Secret key with multiple uid's: gpg fails: no default secret key

I've tested FireGPG successfully by generating a new key and everything works fine.

However, when I import my secret key with multiple uid's, gpg fails:

Signing failed because of an unknown error. Make sure a default private key has been set in the preferences.
gpg: no default secret key: secret key not available
gpg: [stdin]: clearsign failed: secret key not available

Neither selecting any default key, nor manually selecting the key works. I may have captured the command line used, if this is any help:

/usr/bin/gpg --quiet --no-tty --no-verbose --status-fd 2 --armor --batch --no-use-agent --default-key 123492D854870C81 --output - --passphrase-fd 0 --comment 'Use GnuPG with Firefox : http://getfiregpg.org (Version: 0.7.10)' --sign

I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 and have been using gpg for several years with Thunderbird.

Thanks for any help

Ivo

  • From: Geneva
  • Registered: 2007-04-04
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Re: Secret key with multiple uid's: gpg fails: no default secret key

Do you have a public key with the same keyid ? (Except the public key of your private key, of course)

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  • Registered: 2010-01-17
  • Posts: 2

Re: Secret key with multiple uid's: gpg fails: no default secret key

Thank you very much for your answer.

It was indeed a problem with the public keys, not that there were too many, but I had none (not even my own). I found a backup of my pubring.gpg and used this one. Now everythings work just fine.

Best regards

Ivo