Bug 182029

Summary: 1.4.2.1 breaks my keyring: "mpi larger than indicated length"
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Enrico Scholz <rh-bugzilla>
Component: gnupgAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Fixed In Version: 1.4.2.1-3 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Enrico Scholz 2006-02-19 12:00:34 UTC 
Description of problem:

After update to 1.4.2.1 my keyrings becomes unusable; now I get

| $ LANG=C gpg --update-trustdb
| gpg: mpi larger than indicated length (2 bytes)
| gpg: keyring_get_keyblock: read error: invalid packet
| gpg: keyring_get_keyblock failed: invalid keyring
| gpg: failed to rebuild keyring cache: invalid keyring
| gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket
| gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket
| gpg: signature packet without keyid
| gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket
| gpg: mpi larger than indicated length (2 bytes)
| gpg: keyring_get_keyblock: read error: invalid packet
| gpg: keyring_get_keyblock failed: invalid keyring
| gpg: failed to rebuild keyring cache: invalid keyring
| gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, PGP trust model
| gpg: mpi larger than indicated length (2 bytes)
| gpg: keyring_get_keyblock: read error: invalid packet
| gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: invalid keyring
| gpg: validate_key_list failed

Downgrading to 1.4.1 makes it work again. This issue (inclusive patch)
is described in
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_frm/thread/4af65c6ae2efaa16/6a3c45eb7221960a


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

gnupg-1.4.2.1-1
Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2006-02-20 21:01:54 UTC 
Pushing a test update for this (1.4.2.1-3).  If there are no new bug reports by
Thursday, I'll move it to a Final update.
Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2006-07-12 19:35:23 UTC 
That did happen.  Must have forgotten to close the bug report.