secring.gpg: file open error

[Treutwein Bernhard]

After successfully installing GnuPG and calling gpg --gen-key for the first
time
I get an error message that gpg can't open the secring and some messages that
the .gnupg directory and pubring were created. When I try now to create my
key 
pair, gpg fails.

If I call gpg --gen-key again, gpg creates the secring.gpg and it works.

This behaviour is reproducible, if I delete the .gnupg directory.

This is on a Solaris 8 Intel machine with prngd, openssl & openssh installed.

gpg is running suid (to avoid the famous "insecure memory").

Is this a bug or a feature ?

bash-2.03$ rm -r .gnupg/
bash-2.03$ gpg --gen-key
gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.1; Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

gpg: /home/treutwei/.gnupg: directory created
gpg: new configuration file `/home/treutwei/.gnupg/gpg.conf' created
gpg: keyblock resource `/home/treutwei/.gnupg/secring.gpg': file open error
gpg: keyring `/home/treutwei/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' created
Please select what kind of key you want:
   (1) DSA and ElGamal (default)
   (2) DSA (sign only)
   (5) RSA (sign only)
Your selection? ^C
gpg: some signal caught ... exiting

bash-2.03$ gpg --gen-key
gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.1; Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

gpg: keyring `/home/treutwei/.gnupg/secring.gpg' created
Please select what kind of key you want:
   (1) DSA and ElGamal (default)
   (2) DSA (sign only)
   (5) RSA (sign only)
Your selection? ^C
gpg: some signal caught ... exiting


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