Enigmail errors on Vista Ultimate

[Guest Neil Jones]

I am running Thunderbird 2.0 on Vista Ultimate. In the past versions of

Thunderbird and Windows, I had Enigmail working fine. This time around

I am getting some errors messages.

 

Here are the installation details:

 

OS - Vista Ultimate

Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 - Works fine

Gpg4win 1.1.3 - Works fine (can list private and public keys)

Enigmail 0.95.7 - Does not work with the existing keys listed in GPG.

 

 

Here are the error messages that I am getting:

 

___________________________

 

C:\Program Files\GNU\GnuPG\gpg.exe --charset utf8 --batch --no-tty

--status-fd 2 --with-fingerprint --fixed-list-mode --with-colons

--list-secret-keys

 

gpg: Oops; key lost!

node 0097AC00 01/00 type=public-key keyid=XXXXXXXX a=17 u=13 ..v.

node 0097AB20 00/00 type=user-id

<snip>

___________________________

 

Any ideas how to import keys in Enigmail's key chain on Vista?

 

Thank you in advance.

 

NJ

[Guest Mick Murphy]

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=En...le+Search&meta=

 

Google is your best friend.

--

Mad Mike

 

 

"Neil Jones" wrote:

<span style="color:blue">

> I am running Thunderbird 2.0 on Vista Ultimate. In the past versions of

> Thunderbird and Windows, I had Enigmail working fine. This time around

> I am getting some errors messages.

>

> Here are the installation details:

>

> OS - Vista Ultimate

> Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 - Works fine

> Gpg4win 1.1.3 - Works fine (can list private and public keys)

> Enigmail 0.95.7 - Does not work with the existing keys listed in GPG.

>

>

> Here are the error messages that I am getting:

>

> ___________________________

>

> C:Program FilesGNUGnuPGgpg.exe --charset utf8 --batch --no-tty

> --status-fd 2 --with-fingerprint --fixed-list-mode --with-colons

> --list-secret-keys

>

> gpg: Oops; key lost!

> node 0097AC00 01/00 type=public-key keyid=XXXXXXXX a=17 u=13 ..v.

> node 0097AB20 00/00 type=user-id

> <snip>

> ___________________________

>

> Any ideas how to import keys in Enigmail's key chain on Vista?

>

> Thank you in advance.

>

> NJ

> </span>

[Guest Hank J.]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 12:27:00 -0800, Mick Murphy

<MickMurphy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

<span style="color:blue">

>Google is your best friend.</span>

 

Might be your choice, but I prefer having a real person for a best

friend.

[Guest Mick Murphy]

Back again Snidley.

You don't have friends.

--

Mad Mike

 

 

"Hank J." wrote:

<span style="color:blue">

> On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 12:27:00 -0800, Mick Murphy

> <MickMurphy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> <span style="color:green">

> >Google is your best friend.</span>

>

> Might be your choice, but I prefer having a real person for a best

> friend.

> </span>

[Guest Neil W Rickert]

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Neil Jones <castellan2004-nschap@remove-this.yahoo.com> writes:

<span style="color:blue">

>I am running Thunderbird 2.0 on Vista Ultimate. In the past versions of

>Thunderbird and Windows, I had Enigmail working fine. This time around

>I am getting some errors messages.</span>

 

I am not noticing a problem. Admittedly I am primarily a unix

user, so perhaps I haven't stressed Vista enough. Incidently, my

Vista is home premium 32bit. I doubt that the home premium makes a

difference, but if you are using 64bit, there's a possibility that

the problem is there (though I don't know why).

 

The one problem I did have, was updating to a newer version

of enigmail. The update never seemed to take. I switched to

installing globally, and that solved the problem.

 

NOTE: To install globally, I start a command prompt with "runas Adminstrator".

I then CD to the directory containing thunderbird on the C: drive,

and then to a directory containing the extension on the D: drive. Then

I use

c:thunderbird -install-global-extension enigmail-0.95.7-tb+sm.xpi

<span style="color:blue">

>OS - Vista Ultimate

>Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 - Works fine

>Gpg4win 1.1.3 - Works fine (can list private and public keys)

>Enigmail 0.95.7 - Does not work with the existing keys listed in GPG.</span>

 

I have the same versions of Thunderbird, gpg4win, enigmail, but

vista home premium. I'll try some stress testing this week, and post

again in about 1 week.

 

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[Guest Neil W Rickert]

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Neil Jones <castellan2004-nschap@remove-this.yahoo.com> writes:

<span style="color:blue">

>I am running Thunderbird 2.0 on Vista Ultimate. In the past versions of

>Thunderbird and Windows, I had Enigmail working fine. This time around

>I am getting some errors messages.</span>

 

I spent some more time stressing enigmail 0.95.7 on 32bit Vista

home premium. I could not get it to break. It seems to be working

fine for me.

 

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[Guest Neil Jones]

Neil W Rickert wrote:<span style="color:blue">

> Neil Jones <castellan2004-nschap@remove-this.yahoo.com> writes:

> <span style="color:green">

>> I am running Thunderbird 2.0 on Vista Ultimate. In the past versions of

>> Thunderbird and Windows, I had Enigmail working fine. This time around

>> I am getting some errors messages.</span>

>

> I spent some more time stressing enigmail 0.95.7 on 32bit Vista

> home premium. I could not get it to break. It seems to be working

> fine for me.

> </span>

 

Thank you for replying and trying this out! I would hate to reinstall

Thunderbird/ggp4win/enigmail from scratch (especially after configuring

all the settings). I guess I will create a backup and try to reinstall

this weekend.

 

I will keep you posted.

 

Thank you once again for trying to help.

 

NJ

[Guest Neil Jones]

Neil W Rickert wrote:<span style="color:blue">

> Neil Jones <castellan2004-nschap@remove-this.yahoo.com> writes:

> <span style="color:green">

>> I am running Thunderbird 2.0 on Vista Ultimate. In the past versions of

>> Thunderbird and Windows, I had Enigmail working fine. This time around

>> I am getting some errors messages.</span>

>

> I spent some more time stressing enigmail 0.95.7 on 32bit Vista

> home premium. I could not get it to break. It seems to be working

> fine for me.

> </span>

 

I have uninstalled Enigmail, Thunderbird followed by GPG (gpg4win and

GPG). None of the data files in the "AppData" directory were deleted.

Then I repeated by installing in the following order - GPG (not gpg4win)

followed by Thunderbird and then Enigmail.

 

Enigmail still shows the same error message as previously stated.

 

I will see if generating keys will make any difference. (I would prefer

to use my existing keys from the key ring).

 

NJ

[Guest Neil W Rickert]

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Neil Jones <castellan2004-nschap@remove-this.yahoo.com> writes:

<span style="color:blue">

>I will see if generating keys will make any difference. (I would prefer

>to use my existing keys from the key ring).</span>

 

I am using a keyring copied from unix. So it should not be necessary

to generate the keys there. It might need a gnupg keyring rather

than a pgp keyring, but converting them is possible if that's

the problem.

 

Is it possible that you have some other version of gpg somewhere on

your path, and enigmail is getting the wrong one? Maybe use a

command prompt, and try

 

gpg --list-keys

gpg --version

 

to see if the command line is working, and if it is the version

you think you installed (I am seeing version 1.4.7). As I recall,

"gpg4win" installs a command line version of gpg in

C:\Program Files\GNU\GnuPG\pub

and adds that to your PATH. I'm not certain, but I think enigmail is

searching the path rather than looking in the registry to locate gpg.

 

I think the software is looking in

C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\GnuPG

for the keyrings. However, Vista is treating "Documents and

Settings" and "Application Data" as symbolic references to other

directories, so that directory should actually turn out to be

C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\GnuPG

(replace "user" by the login account name in Vista).

 

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[Guest Neil W Rickert]

Neil Jones <castellan2004-nschap@remove-this.yahoo.com> writes:

<span style="color:blue">

>Then I repeated by installing in the following order - GPG (not gpg4win)

>followed by Thunderbird and then Enigmail.</span>

 

I missed that you did not install gpg4win this time.

 

Looking back at your earlier message, I think gpg is not finding

your keyrings.

 

Earlier versions, or versions not from gpg4win, are possibly

expecting keyrings in a different place. And, as I recall, registry

entries used with earlier versions are different from the registry

entries used with gpg4win.

 

If you open a command prompt, and run

 

gpg --help

 

then the first or second line of output should be the directory

where it is looking for your keyrings.

[Guest Neil Jones]

Neil W Rickert wrote:<span style="color:blue">

> Neil Jones <castellan2004-nschap@remove-this.yahoo.com> writes:

> <span style="color:green">

>> Then I repeated by installing in the following order - GPG (not gpg4win)

>> followed by Thunderbird and then Enigmail.</span>

>

> I missed that you did not install gpg4win this time.

>

> Looking back at your earlier message, I think gpg is not finding

> your keyrings.

>

> Earlier versions, or versions not from gpg4win, are possibly

> expecting keyrings in a different place. And, as I recall, registry

> entries used with earlier versions are different from the registry

> entries used with gpg4win.

>

> If you open a command prompt, and run

>

> gpg --help

>

> then the first or second line of output should be the directory

> where it is looking for your keyrings.

> </span>

 

Ok! This is what happened. It looks like the key files in

"AppData\Roaming\gnupg" directory were corrupted. I have pretty much

tried every book in the trade and failed to get Enigmail to read the

keys. The final litmus test was I uploaded these files to a Linux

system and tried to import them into Thunderbird/Enigmail setup. Voila

and it failed.

 

Very fortunately I did save the keys at a different directory. I copied

these files over and TB/GPG/Enigmail work like a charm. :-)

 

Special Thanks to Neil for troubleshooting to get it to work!

 

Hopefully, this will save some frustrating time to other folks with

broken key files/rings.

 

Have a great evening everyone.

 

NJ