Dear Whonix Team,
First of all lots of respect for the creation of Whonix you guys deserve a donations which i will send to you guys shortly.
I’m using whonix 14 right now and the new designs looks very good and clean. Lots of love for that aswell.
Yesterday i was trying to use the KGPG to create a new key but it gave me an error.
It happened when i was trying to save the .asc file. It says that it was created successfully but it never appears in the selected folder. I know that file is hidden but even so i couldn’t find the key.
Also when i start importing the secret key in to KGPG it gives a error upon importation. When the proces is done the key shows but it doesnt work encrypting/decrypting and even setting up trust level doesn’t work.
KGPG gives no error when i back up the key or generate a keypair but on importing a key it does give a error
Then i tried to install GPA which is also a tool to decrypt/encrypt messages. upon generating a key pair it gives this error.
The GPGME library returned an unexpected
error at gpagenkeysimpleop.c:224. The error was:
Inappropriate ioctl for device
This is either an installation problem or a bug in GPA.
GPA will now try to recover from this error.
Can you guys please help me with this!
Thankd in advance
Unknown. But very unlikely to be fixed by Whonix team. Unlikely this bug is caused by anything done by Whonix.
Could you check please as per Free Support for Whonix ™ if this bug was reported upstream against Debian kgpg package or against kgpg developers, and if not report the bug?
Reporting bugs is a big help to Whonix. Please understand that Whonix developers have minimal human resources and can only focus on Whonix packages. This means that any non-Whonix bugs must be reported upstream to the respective developers (i.e. Debian, Tor, Qubes etc…etc developers). That way when the bug is fixed, everyone that uses that software package benefits.
All Patrick was doing was trying to point you in the right direction so you could find and answer. Or notify the upstream developers. This could even be a new bug? It would be pretty cool if you found a bug that had not been reported.
P.S. Don’t feel bad. Sometime I get asked to help out with something and I don’t know what the heck I’m doing.
As I am new in this unix world, I am not aware of who is doing what and where to go to find some help or report a possible bug regarding the case. I now have understood here should only be reported issues in relation with your distribution and nothing else.
If you are sure it not a Whonix bug. First look for error messages using the forum search engine as well as your normal search engine to see if the bug has been reported already or possibly solved.