Open sunhasgothishaton opened 3 years ago
Interesting. I will add a note about that if more users report this issue. Is this a known bug in gnupg?
I don't know if its a known issue to the gnupg developers.
The only page I read it on is https://superuser.com/questions/874901/what-are-the-step-to-move-all-your-dotfiles-into-xdg-directories It mentions the problem in Fedora 21 which was released December 2014, I don't know what version of gnupg they were using on Fedora 21
I'm using Xubuntu 18.04.5 (which this happens to), I also have Opensuse Tumbleweed installed for testing out and I just checked this and it doesn't happen on Tumbleweed.
I'm upgrading my setup to Ubuntu 20.04 soon, I will check for this when I upgrade. Perhaps its been fixed and a problem with the version I'm using.
After I updated to Xubuntu 20.04, I deleted the empty $HOME/.gnupg and it all worked ok. No new empty $HOME/.gnupg was created.
Xubuntu 18.04 uses gnupg 2.2.4 Xubuntu 20.04 uses gnupg 2.2.19
So it seems it must have been fixed between those versions
This will only happen on some linux distrobutions, not all (so I have read). I don't think anything can be done about it.
After migrating .gnupg, upon reboot it will create a new $HOME/.gnupg directory which has one empty directy in it, though continue to use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gnupg when using the gpg command.
I get this with Xubuntu 18.04.5