Cannot genkey with 1.0.4

[Armin Hartinger]

cd ~
mkdir .gnupg

Should do the trick.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vincent Danen" <vdanen@mandrakesoft.com>
To: <gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 5:03 PM
Subject: Cannot genkey with 1.0.4


> Does anyone know why when I try to generate a new key I get the
> following errors:
>
> gpg: keyblock resource `/home/adanen.gnupg': file open error
> gpg: can add keyblock file `/home/adanen/.gnupg/pubring.gpg'
> Key generation failed: file create error
> gpg: can't create `/home/adanen/.gnupg/random_seed': No such file or
directory
>
> ???  This is with the 1.0.4 Mandrake RPMs.  I know previous versions
> used to work and I'm wondering why this doesn't work now?  Obviously
> if I create ~/.gnupg first, it'll work, but we never used to have to
> do that.
>
> Any ideas on how I could go about fixing this annoyance?  I'm not a
> member of this list so please cc any responses to me directly.
>
> Thank you!
>
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