keyblock resource: file open error

[Wesley J Landaker]

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On Saturday 21 October 2000 12:37pm, Daniel Freedman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed GnuPG 1.0.4 on RH 6.0 using the RPM linked to from the
> www.gnupg.org website.  When trying to establish my initial key with
> 'gpg --gen-key': I get the following message:
>
> gpg: keyblock resource `/home/freedman/.gnupg': file open error
> gpg: keyblock resource `/home/freedman/.gnupg': file open error
>
> It will continue the script to generate the random seed (??), but
> then fail to be able to write that in my home directory (in .gnupg). 
> I've never seen this type of message before, so I'm not sure if I've
> misconfigured bash (I do have umask 077 set, but I didn't think this
> would effect this process) or if this is a gnupg-related question. 
> If it's bash-config, sorry for bothering you guys.

I actually ran into this same thing when I upgraded to gnupg-1.0.4 and 
had some other users trying to install it... it seems that for some 
reason it won't make the ~/.gnupg directory for you.

However, if the directory already exists or if you just make the 
directory yourself, it works fine.

i.e.

mkdir ~/.gnupg
gpg --gen-key

works fine.

This will never happen if you already have a ~/.gnupg directory (ie if 
you are upgrading from a previous version and you already have keys)

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Wesley J. Landaker - wjl@mindless.com           ICQ# 17241646
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