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James Budarz (jimbudarz) wrote : Encrypted backup repeatedly asks for password on first use

Some have reported problems before with repeated demands for encryption passwords, but mine gives a different error. I've deleted all my previous backups and reinstalled duplicity and deja-dup, but I still get the error:

DUPLICITY: . ===== Begin GnuPG log =====
DUPLICITY: . gpg: WARNING: "--no-use-agent" is an obsolete option - it has no effect
DUPLICITY: . gpg: invalid size of lockfile '/home/jimbudarz/.gnupg/gnupg_spawn_agent_sentinel.lock'
DUPLICITY: . gpg: cannot read lockfile
DUPLICITY: . gpg: can't connect to the agent: Invalid argument
DUPLICITY: . gpg: problem with the agent: No agent running
DUPLICITY: . ===== End GnuPG log =====
DUPLICITY: .
DUPLICITY: .

DUPLICITY: ERROR 31 GPGError
DUPLICITY: . GPGError: GPG Failed, see log below:
DUPLICITY: . ===== Begin GnuPG log =====
DUPLICITY: . gpg: WARNING: "--no-use-agent" is an obsolete option - it has no effect
DUPLICITY: . gpg: invalid size of lockfile '/home/jimbudarz/.gnupg/gnupg_spawn_agent_sentinel.lock'
DUPLICITY: . gpg: cannot read lockfile
DUPLICITY: . gpg: can't connect to the agent: Invalid argument
DUPLICITY: . gpg: problem with the agent: No agent running
DUPLICITY: . ===== End GnuPG log =====
DUPLICITY: .

System details:
Ubuntu 17.04
deja-dup 34.4-0ubuntu1
duplicity 0.7.06-2ubuntu3

Thank you in advance!