Confirm this on Lucid 10.04 i686 Above is requested:
"please do a 'ls -l ~/.gnupg/*.gpg'. This will will list (among other things) which user and group owns the files. There should be 3 files, pubring.gpg, secring.gpg, and trustdb.gpg. These 3 files -- in fact, *all* under ~/.gnupg -- should be owned by your userid, your group, not by root, or any other user. Please comment on what you find. Thanks." Here is my finding: $ ls -l ~/.gnupg/*.gpg ls: cannot access /home/<username>/.gnupg/*.gpg: Permission denied <username>@<computername>:~$ sudo ls -l ~/.gnupg/*.gpg ls: cannot access /home/<username>/.gnupg/*.gpg: No such file or directory My steps were: first I tried to generate a PGP key from the command line but failed and was unable to find the steps to do it properly that way. So I installed Seahorse. 1) Started Seahorse from menu 2) Tried 'Sync and publish keys' but that seemed to stall, so I cancelled it. 3) I press on the 'new' button to generate a new key. I select PGP key and press continue. I fill out the fields for 'real name', 'email address', and 'comment'. I so NOT click on the arrow for advanced options. I click on 'Create'. It asks me for a Passphrase for New PGP Key. I enter my password two times, the same both times. I click OK. A box pops up with an error message in it: Couldn't generate PGP key General error -- Seahorse will not generate a key https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321287 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
