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Priyamvada Bhardwaj
Priyamvada Bhardwaj

Reputation: 51

gpg failed to sign the data. Failed to write commit object

I wrongly did sudo install gpg due to passphrase error. Now I am not able to commit anything through intelliJ. I am getting below error:

gpg: skipped "10XXXXXXXXX3892": secret key not available gpg: signing failed: secret key not available error: gpg failed to sign the data fatal: failed to write commit object 
gpg: skipped "MyUpdates": secret key not available gpg: signing failed: secret key not available error: gpg failed to sign the data fatal: failed to write commit object

Here two secret keys are shown "10XXXXXXXXX3892" and "MyUpdates". Is there any way i can get rid of gpg error. How can I uninstall gpg?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4690

Answers (1)

Jens Erat
Jens Erat

Reputation: 38732

This reads like a permissions problem. You likely created/installed the keys as another user than IntelliJ is running under. Given you run IntelliJ under your normal user account (which you generally should be doing), take ownership of the GnuPG home directory again:

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~/.gnupg

Then make sure you can see the private keys:

gpg --list-secret-keys

Upvotes: 4

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