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Hi, I keep getting this error when generating my key. Logged on as root... any help appreciated thanx much
We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
.+++++++++++++++++++++++++.+++++..+++++..+++++++++++++++++++++++++.+++++.++++++++++++++++++++.+++++. +++++..+++++..+++++++++++++++..++++++++++.+++++>.+++++....+++++^^^
gpg: no writable public keyring found: eof
Key generation failed: eof
gpg: can't create `/root/.gnupg/random_seed': No such file or directory
I got the same error message. But I then saw that I didn't have the ".gnupg" directory either under "/root/" for the root user of under "/home/myusername" for the default userID. After I just created the file with "mkdir .gnupg" and that's it.
The file should have the correct write permission.
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