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. 2. 3. 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.
Can confirm, see also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=146167
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 142206 ***