Wow, I feel like there is a lot of hostility in these responses. Is that really necessary?
I'm sorry, but I've tried this on both a vmware esx server instance and a VM (in VMware Fusion) on my local desktop in a shell window. In both cases, the result was the same. I let it sit for *hours* and nothing happened. Ask google, other people are having the same issue. Since this is in a shell console, there is no mouse to move. Typing in data does nothing despite the message suggesting that it would. If that was a valid suggestion, I would have not bothered posting an issue here. It takes only a few minutes to boot up an Ubuntu 10.4.1 image in vmware to duplicate this issue. Did you try that before suggesting that it works for 'hundreds and thousands of people' (btw, where did you get that metric from)? If you have a better solution than using, I'm all ears, but simply saying "learn about entropy" is not being part of the solution. I'm just reporting on what worked for me. I don't really care if my key isn't perfectly random as all I'm doing is trying to sign debian packages that I'm creating and I'd like the process for creating these keys to be a bit easier to document. Have a nice day. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/706011 Title: gpg --key-gen doesn't have enough entropy and rng-tools install/start fails -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
