Problem
After upgrading the system using rpm-ostree upgrade, the gpg command started to hang.
When I noticed this issue for the first time, I was using git commit -S with other arguments, I ran rpm-ostree upgrade again, and it seems like has upgraded some packages.
I rebooted after it finished, and ran gpg --list-keys, this time it showed the following:
gpg: waiting for lock (held by 20) ...
gpg: waiting for lock (held by 20) ...
gpg: waiting for lock (held by 20) ...
gpg: waiting for lock (held by 20) ...
gpg: waiting for lock (held by 20) ...
It’s bizarre because pid 20 seems like a Kernel process for the CPU
So I rebooted again, but this time still had the same error message. I looked into the ~/.gnupg/ directory and found there is a file called gnupg_spawn_keyboxd_sentinel.lock, and I removed it.
Well after removing that lock file (I think), the gpg --list-keys no longer displaying lock file is held by pid 20, this time it just decided to hang, no output, just pure silence.
Here is gpg --list-keys --verbose output:
❯ gpg --list-keys --verbose
gpg: enabled compatibility flags:
gpg: using pgp trust model
rpm-ostree status -v:
State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: disabled
Deployments:
● fedora:fedora/39/x86_64/silverblue (index: 0)
Version: 39.20240127.0 (2024-01-27T01:03:37Z)
BaseCommit: c6d6e3a8421312fab2cab62d46e61e8efdaeb67a720435a01e8241f6aba717c2
├─ repo-0 (2023-11-01T00:12:39Z)
├─ repo-1 (2024-01-27T00:17:15Z)
└─ repo-2 (2024-01-27T00:24:26Z)
Commit: 91469a9e2c9ed623f4eb5181cc44b5bbad1b8116b7ffd399c690d29fecf37d2a
├─ code (2024-01-27T00:31:33Z)
├─ copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:phracek:PyCharm (2023-08-10T15:35:19Z)
├─ fedora (2023-11-01T00:12:39Z)
├─ fedora-cisco-openh264 (2023-03-14T10:57:01Z)
├─ google-chrome (2024-01-25T17:53:42Z)
├─ rpmfusion-free (2023-11-04T16:49:08Z)
├─ rpmfusion-free-updates (2024-01-25T08:35:03Z)
├─ rpmfusion-nonfree (2023-11-04T17:26:32Z)
├─ rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver (2024-01-25T09:11:40Z)
├─ rpmfusion-nonfree-steam (2023-08-10T16:27:35Z)
├─ rpmfusion-nonfree-updates (2024-01-25T08:53:33Z)
├─ tailscale-stable (2024-01-25T19:17:01Z)
├─ updates (2024-01-27T01:20:05Z)
└─ updates-archive (2024-01-27T01:55:30Z)
Staged: no
StateRoot: fedora
GPGSignature: 1 signature
Signature made Sat 27 Jan 2024 09:04:59 CST using RSA key ID 75CF5AC418B8E74C
Good signature from "Fedora <fedora-39-primary@fedoraproject.org>"
LayeredPackages: 'g++' akmods appstream-compose blivet-gui code distrobox gnome-tweaks gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 htop ibus-chewing ibus-rime libappstream-glib libgda libgda-sqlite lzip mozilla-openh264 neovim nvtop openssl
sassc syncthing tailscale waydroid zsh
LocalPackages: rpmfusion-free-release-39-1.noarch rpmfusion-nonfree-release-39-1.noarch vesktop-1.5.0-1.x86_64
fedora:fedora/39/x86_64/silverblue (index: 1)
Version: 39.20240121.0 (2024-01-21T00:40:42Z)
BaseCommit: c222759cc742b6855e767f96921ba0a43817ed46e78460daac05e6507f828002
├─ repo-0 (2023-11-01T00:12:39Z)
├─ repo-1 (2024-01-21T00:16:37Z)
└─ repo-2 (2024-01-21T00:22:35Z)
Commit: c97dba9932d72cb39da63ad13d71b707a64366b20c430428e41fe7882aaab7b5
StateRoot: fedora
GPGSignature: 1 signature
Signature made Sun 21 Jan 2024 08:51:07 CST using RSA key ID 75CF5AC418B8E74C
Good signature from "Fedora <fedora-39-primary@fedoraproject.org>"
LayeredPackages: 'g++' akmods appstream-compose blivet-gui code distrobox gnome-tweaks gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 htop ibus-chewing ibus-rime libappstream-glib libgda libgda-sqlite lzip mozilla-openh264 neovim nvtop openssl
sassc syncthing tailscale waydroid zsh
LocalPackages: rpmfusion-free-release-39-1.noarch rpmfusion-nonfree-release-39-1.noarch vesktop-1.5.0-1.x86_64
Cause
Not yet known.
Related Issues
No idea, every post on the internet is talking about gpg-agent issue, but I tried killing it but still having same issue.
Even using gpg --list-keys in TTY instead of Gnome terminal has the same issue
Gnome “Password and keys” app just hang when I tried to open it.
Workarounds
None yet.