GPG fails on first run

[Stephen Samuel]

If you create a new user -- or simply (re)move your .gnupg
directory, your next command will fail.

Most notably, a newbie user doing a
   gpg  --gen-key

Will go thru the whole key creation process which then craps
out at the last second.

It seems that just about any command that looks into the .gnupg
directory (and then craps out) manages to get far enough into
the creation of the .gnupg directory so that the next command will
succeed.

for example:

$ rm -rf .gnupg ; gpg --list-keys ; echo _______**________; gpg --list-keys
gpg: /home/grey/.gnupg: directory created
gpg: new configuration file `/home/grey/.gnupg/gpg.conf' created
gpg: keyblock resource `/home/grey/.gnupg/pubring.gpg': file open error
_______**________
gpg: keyring `/home/grey/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' created


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