Subject: Re: gpg: fatal: zlib inflate problem __ when decrypting pgp files
From: Brian Dessent <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:30:34 -0800

"Kelly, Brendan" wrote:

> gpg: fatal: zlib inflate problem: invalid distance too far back
> secmem usage: 1632/2748 bytes in 4/8 blocks of pool 3136/32768
> 
> This is a new install of cygwin on new Win 2003 Server using:
> Zlib 1.2.2-1
> Gnupg 1.4.0-2
> 
> I've tested files from 2 different sources, both encrypted with PGP,
> both fail same way. Files decrypt successfully on different machine with
> older versions of cygwin and packages.

It could be a textmode problem if you have text mounts.  But you didn't
include a cygcheck output as requested at
<http://cygwin.com/problems.html> so heck if I know what kind of mounts
you have.

Brian

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