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Panic and the encryption

GPG was acting up

Being in the current historical situation that we are in, I can say that I am a bit jumpy. So when gpg started acting up, I was in a mad scramble to fix it. Panic is not conducive to critical thinking, who'da thunk?

Can't read email, can't even encrypt the .tar files I'm backing up. It wasn't a fun time. So I decided to reinstall my system. It was probably time for it anyways.

Going through the motions

I frantically began tar 'ing up my important folders and flinging them into the closest flash drives I could find. The evening found me flashing the latest Devuan Beowulf into another flash drive and installing it into the OS HDD. This time, my paranoia made me do a full-disk encryption system, at least for the OS. I also learned that I need to gently press on the power button for it to work, not press it all the way in.

After installation, I then needed to do the building-emacs-from-source dance, because Devuan packages don't keep the latest stable sources for Emacs .

By the time I was done, the sun had begun to rise.

GPG still broken, and my panic blinded me to the obvious

When I tested the new install, imagine my surprise when GPG was still giving me errors. What I didn't notice when this first started happening was that gpg-agent was throwing errors. It was throwing errors with line numbers. It had line numbers and file names.

The goddamn gpg-agent.conf file had an error in it and gpg-agent refused to run until it was fixed. Goddamn it. Oh well.

At least my disk is fully encrypted now.