protect_secret_key: assertion failed

[James Troup]

Hi,

Here's a ``bug report'' from a Debian user, it's unreproducible,
fairly lacking in anything resembling detail and is probably useless,
and for that I apologize, but I figure I might as well punt it here
and see if it means anything to anyone/Werner.

James
~Yawn And Walk North~                                  http://yawn.nocrew.org/
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To: james at nocrew.org
Subject: Re: Replacing/phasing out PGP (was Re: Idea for non-free organization)
References: <19980630183118.A13326 at mercury.oz.net> <Pine.LNX.3.96.980701033227.12809A-100000 at ns1.greenbush.com> <19980701110942.58843 at wi.leidenuniv.nl> <dmmg1gl8shh.fsf at dcsun4.comp.brad.ac.uk> <dmmg1glh4fw.fsf at dcsun4.comp.brad.ac.uk>
From: Ben Gertzfield <che at debian.org>
Date: 01 Jul 1998 12:47:10 -0700
Message-ID: <yttlnqdfj5t.fsf at gilgamesh.cse.ucsc.edu>

It took me two tries to generate this key. 

gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
some other action (work in another window, move the mouse, utilize the
network and the disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random
number generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
+++++..+++++..+++++......+++++........+++++...++++++++++....++++++++++..........+++++..++++++++++...+++++..+++++.................+++++.........+++++.......+++++....+++++....+++++..+++++........+++++...+++++.........+++++....+++++..+++++......................+++++>...........+++++.+++++..............................>+++++<...+++++................................<....+++++...........+++++
gpg: seckey-cert.c:197: protect_secret_key: Assertion `!((cert->skey[i]) && ((cert->skey[i])->flags&2))' failed.
zsh: abort      gpg --gen-key

Running it a second time was okay. Go fig. *grin*

Ben

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