Cannot genkey with 1.0.4

[Vincent Danen]

On Tue Oct 31, 2000 at 05:57:39PM -0700, Armin Hartinger wrote:

> cd ~
> mkdir .gnupg
> 
> Should do the trick.

I know that will do the trick.  But why in 1.0.2 when I generated my
own first gpg key did gpg make the directory itself and now it no
longer does it?  That's the problem I have... it used to work one way
and now all of a sudden there is an extra step... =(  any ideas on that?

> 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!
> >
> >
> > Current Linux uptime: 7 days 7 hours 34 minutes.
> >
> 
> 

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