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@balajin.net> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> 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@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 -- 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 ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in </blockquote> <hr size=1></hr> Here’s a new way to find what you're looking for - <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! Answers</a>