current keybase cli cannot login on old accounts!

[iMartyn]

I have had to wipe my linux machine and have reimported my keys in gpg from a backup.

gpg is happy : ranyardm@osxreally-af58 ~/Downloads $ gpg --list-keys /home/ranyardm/.gnupg/pubring.gpg --------------------------------- pub 2048R/CFAEF3F4 2014-01-10 uid Martyn Ranyard (2014 onwards) <martyn@ranyard.info> uid keybase.io/imartyn <imartyn@keybase.io> sub 2048R/5DC2D226 2014-01-10

but keybase refuses to login :

ranyardm@osxreally-af58 ~ $ keybase login Your keybase username or email address: iMartyn ▶ ERROR Sorry, your account is already established with a PGP public key, but this utility cannot find the corresponding private key on this machine. This is the fingerprint of the PGP key in your account: ` 4C31 0155 7BA5 83F4 7FF7 9776 AB4A 6048 CFAE F3F4 You need to prove you're you. We suggest one of the following: - put one of the PGP private keys listed above on this machine and try again - reset your account and start fresh: https://keybase.io/#account-reset`

Please don't make me revoke my pgp key and all my proofs :(

[maxtaco]

Run gpg -K?

[iMartyn]

ranyardm@osxreally-af58 ~/src/grafana_ng (BPE-49) $ gpg -K /home/ranyardm/.gnupg/secring.gpg --------------------------------- sec 2048R/CFAEF3F4 2014-01-10 uid Martyn Ranyard (2014 onwards) <martyn@ranyard.info> uid keybase.io/imartyn <imartyn@keybase.io> ssb 2048R/5DC2D226 2014-01-10

[maxtaco]

Can you please run a keybase log send?

[iMartyn]

Log id 5acb5891d19f932462283a1c

[iMartyn]

▶ WARNING error opening log "/home/ranyardm/.cache/keybase/keybase.kbfs.log": open /home/ranyardm/.cache/keybase/keybase.kbfs.log: no such file or directory ▶ WARNING error opening log "/home/ranyardm/.cache/keybase/Keybase.app.log": open /home/ranyardm/.cache/keybase/Keybase.app.log: no such file or directory ▶ WARNING error opening log "/home/ranyardm/.cache/keybase/keybase.updater.log": open /home/ranyardm/.cache/keybase/keybase.updater.log: no such file or directory ▶ WARNING error opening log "/home/ranyardm/.cache/keybase/keybase.start.log": open /home/ranyardm/.cache/keybase/keybase.start.log: no such file or directory whilst running that btw.

[iMartyn]

Also fwiw, rm -rf ~/.config/keybase ~/.cache/keybase makes no difference either :(

[iMartyn]

Also, debian wheezy ships with gpg1 as gpg, and gpg2 as gpg2, both see my keys correctly, and swapping them over makes no difference (/usr/bin/gpg as a symlink to /usr/bin/gpg2)

[patrickxb]

Those WARNING messages are fine.

I'm looking at your log right now. I see the output of gpg -K above, but could you also run

gpg -K --with-colons --fingerprint

I'm guessing we have a bug parsing the output of that as we can't seem to find CFAEF3F4.

[iMartyn]

there's interesting... that returns no output!

[patrickxb]

how about

gpg2 -K --with-colons --fingerprint

[iMartyn]

oh, gpg2 doesn't. gpgp1 gives sec::2048:1:AB4A6048CFAEF3F4:2014-01-10::::Martyn Ranyard (2014 onwards) <martyn@ranyard.info>::: fpr:::::::::4C3101557BA583F47FF79776AB4A6048CFAEF3F4: uid:::::::2391910FD2F9028AF3A6311C1DF800381ABDF214::keybase.io/imartyn <imartyn@keybase.io>: ssb::2048:1:CBDE4D4D5DC2D226:2014-01-10:::::::

[patrickxb]

Ok, so keybase is preferring to use gpg2 if it finds gpg2. Perhaps the private key is only in the gpg1 keyring?

[maxtaco]

@iMartyn which version of gpg2 do you have?

[iMartyn]

I didn't have gpg2 installed originally. gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.11

[iMartyn]

wait... what.... ugh debian packaging is horrid. gpgv2 is not gpg2

[iMartyn]

Okay, I can't seem to transfer the keys to gpg2 correctly. I don't think it likes them not having a passphrase locally. I guess this can be closed for now, with the slight issue that the error doesn't point out that the machine has gpg1 and gpg2 installed, which I'd consider a usability bug.

[maxtaco]

You can do keybase config set gpg gpg to disable defaulting to gpg2

[patrickxb]

Were you able to provision your linux machine successfully?

[iMartyn]

Yep, by doing the suggested command from @maxtaco, I'm doing that now and have got further.