Re: [Sks-devel] Re: Gnupg or keyserver bug?

[Jason Harris]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 12:09:28PM +0200, Olaf Gellert wrote:
> Jason Harris wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:25:43AM +0200, Kevin Bube wrote:

> >>yesterday I encountered a gpg error while I tried to import a key from a
> >>keyserver. This is the first key where I saw this.

> >>| address@hidden:~/tmp $ gpg --keyserver blackhole.pca.dfn.de --homedir 
> >>/tmp --recv-key EAE8EB6A

> >>| gpg: Ohhhh jeeee: mpi crosses packet border

> > blackhole.pca.dfn.de needs to be upgraded to the latest version of SKS.
> 
> Well, I upgraded the keyserver to a recent (CVS) version.
> But the error still occurs. So? Maybe something that
> is stored in the database (I did not erase the database
> while upgrading the server)?

Indeed, although with GPG 1.4.2 the error messages are more descriptive:

  gpg: mpi larger than indicated length (517 bytes)
  gpg: mpi larger than indicated length (0 bytes)
  gpg: read_block: read error: invalid packet

Move ./KDB/meta out of the way and run "sks cleandb" with no other
processes accessing the dbs.

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