[ubuntu-in] GPG error, Please help

[Anindya Banerjee]

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Why do you not going to thunderbird && enigmail for a complete gpg
support in GUI?
regards
banerjee


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?
> 
> thanks n regards
> 
>  techKyLa
> aka. Akshay
> 
> 
> Balaji Narayanan <lists at balajin.net> 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
>>
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>>
>> akshay at aks-host:~$ 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
> 
> 
> 
> 

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