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Can anyone advise why my pass password manager stopped working? As far as I know it was perfectly ok before I renewed an expired key. Accessing old passwords still works fine, but I can no longer create new passwords. 

$ pass generate foo
gpg: [stdin]: encryption failed: No public key
Password encryption aborted.

Here is the output of gpg --list-keys.

pub   rsa4096 2019-05-12 [SC] [expires: 2022-05-11]
      XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
      uid           [ultimate] XXXXXXXXXX  <xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.com>
      sub   rsa4096 2019-05-12 [E] [expires: 2020-05-25]

And gpg --version:


gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.20
libgcrypt 1.8.5
Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA, EDDSA
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,
        CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
Hash: SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

I began using pass last year, when I was running Linux Mint 19. I'm now running Ubuntu Studio 19.10, using the same /home partition, for what that's worth.

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Thanks to https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/412363/412280, I found that ~/.password-store/.gpg-id contained only the name of a botched password entry. I replaced ~/.password-store/.gpg-id with my real gpg-id and all is good again.

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    Can confirm i had that same problem a lot before. I would recommend to backup not only the password-store directory (since it's a git directory, using git bundle is a good idea) but also the .gpg-id along the .gnupg directory. – Nordine Lotfi May 15 '20 at 19:03