[ubuntu-in] GPG error, Please help

[Balaji Narayanan]

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 <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
>>
>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>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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