Weird GPG problem - Newbie needs help.

[Phillip]

> > gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=67)
> > gpg: /home/qbert/.gnupg/pubring.gpg: copy to
> > /home/qbert/.gnupg/pubring.gpg.tmp
> > failed: Ungültiges Paket
> > gpg: can't write public key: Ungültiges Paket
> > Schlüsselerzeugung fehlgeschlagen: Ungültiges Paket
> > <<<
>
>  Are you passing throughout a proxy to connect the internet ?

No. But that is afaik not the question here. I'm trying to generate a 
keypair. Or does GPG go into the net when its finished generating a keypair?