Give more detailed information about why search for key failed
Reported by Corellian | January 26th, 2011 @ 12:42 PM
In 0.8.2b GPG Keychain Access, when you search for a key and it fails, doesn't give any information about why it failed, it only says "Error !". I think it should be more verbose, like "Server is not responding" or "This server doesn't exist", or whatever it happened.
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Bussonnier Matthias May 8th, 2011 @ 11:16 AM
if i'm not mistaken, the error message is selected based on the return value of the helper which on most case i think called gpg2keys_hkp. But the return value is almost alway 1 which is "INTERNAL_ERROR".
Cf MacGPG2/source/gnupg2/common/keyserver.h
I've try by denying acces with my firewall and it returned 1, even if "KEYSERVER_UNREACHABLE=9" is defined. So i'm not sure how to make a message which change depending on the reason why it doesn't worked ... -
steve October 21st, 2011 @ 06:56 PM
- Title changed from “When search for key fails doesn't give any information about why it failed” to “Give more detailed information about why search for key failed”
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steve October 1st, 2014 @ 06:54 PM
- State changed from “open” to “new”
- Assigned user cleared.
- Milestone cleared.
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steve December 5th, 2014 @ 01:53 PM
Currently it says
gpg: keyserver internal error
gpg: keyserver search failed: Keyserver errorIdeally we should show "Key server did not respond." or "Bad key server address." then GPG Keychain should try another key server from the list.
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