On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:33:08AM +0100, Akshay Rao wrote: >Hi Balaji, > I did change the permission and also tried to create a key as root, >i still encountered the same problem. :( > >i am getting this invalid packet (ctb=45) error. >can you identify it?
Please do not top post. Can you please provide me the permissions of the directory, and also the output of the command again. -balaji > >thanks n regards > > techKyLa >aka. Akshay > > >Balaji Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 03:24:02PM >+0100, Akshay Rao wrote: >>hi everyone, >> >>i tried to sign up as Ubuntero, but i was asked to provide my GPG key, >>so i tried creating one using >> >>gpg --gen-key in ubuntu 6.06 >> >>i was unable to create one! :( >> >>here is the entire snapshot of the terminal in which i tried creating the key, >> >>kindly help me find the error!!! >>it would be of great help if anyone can guide me in creating my GPG key. >>i am pasting the entire snapshot below... >> >>thanks in advance, >>regards >>Akshay >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gpg --gen-key >>gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.2.2; Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >>This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. >>This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it >>under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details. >> >>gpg: failed to create temporary file >>`/home/akshay/.gnupg/.#lk0x810c1a0.aks-host.6911': Permission denied >>gpg: keyblock resource `/home/akshay/.gnupg/secring.gpg': general error >>gpg: failed to create temporary file >>`/home/akshay/.gnupg/.#lk0x8120eb8.aks-host.6911': Permission denied >>gpg: keyblock resource `/home/akshay/.gnupg/pubring.gpg': general error > >There seems to be the problem. Can you check your permissions for >/home/akshay/.gnupg directory? > >-balaji > > > >-- >Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be >taught how ___not to. So it is with the great programmers. > >-- >ubuntu-in mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > > >--------------------------------- > Heres a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! Answers >-- >ubuntu-in mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in ---end quoted text--- -- It's hard to think of you as the end result of millions of years of evolution. -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
