Bug 150935

Summary: gnupg fails to create a key pair when run for the first time
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Ian Laurie <nixuser>
Component: gnupgAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Ian Laurie 2005-03-12 05:47:18 UTC 
Description of problem:
gnupg fails to create a key pair.  It looks like the directory
~/.gnupg doesn't get created as it should when run for the first time.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnupg-1.2.6-1

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch gpg to generate a key pair for the first time.
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Actual results:
Trying to generate a key pair using the --gen-key option, you get an
error as follows:

helix# gpg --gen-key
.
 [snip]
.
gpg: no writable public keyring found: eof
Key generation failed: eof
gpg: can't create `/root/.gnupg/random_seed': No such file or directory


Expected results:
Should create the ~/.gnupg directory and create the key pairs on first
run.

Additional info:
FC3 seems to have the same problem.  Worked OK in RHEL3 from what I
remember.
Comment 1 Peter Bieringer 2005-03-30 12:09:15 UTC 
Can confirm, see also:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=146167
Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2005-09-07 18:20:01 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 142206 ***