gnupg errors

[jdonz]

i am getting some errors when trying to generate a new keypair.

[josh@localhost ~]$ gpg --gen-key
gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.6; Copyright (C) 2004 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/josh/.gnupg/.#lk0xf7005868.localhost.localdomain.5180': No such file or directory
gpg: keyblock resource `/home/josh/.gnupg/secring.gpg': general error
gpg: failed to create temporary file `/home/josh/.gnupg/.#lk0xf7005cc8.localhost.localdomain.5180': No such file or directory
gpg: keyblock resource `/home/josh/.gnupg/pubring.gpg': general error
Please select what kind of key you want:
   (1) DSA and ElGamal (default)
   (2) DSA (sign only)
   (4) RSA (sign only)
Your selection?

anyone have any ideas? i checked the faq on gnupg.org and the error showed up but as an error in ver. 1.0.4. it says it is a known bug that has been fixed in newer versions. i am runnung ver. 1.2.6. also, there were no bugs in the gnupg bug tracker.thanks in advance.

josh

[macemoneta]

Well, the error says:

`/home/josh/.gnupg/.#lk0xf7005868.localhost.localdomain.5180': No such file or directory

Have you tried creating the /home/josh/.gnupg directory? Also, make sure that you have write permissions to that directory. I've sometimes created a directory as root, but then the userid I normally use can't write to it. To correct that situation (as root):

chown -R userid.group directory

[jdonz]

heh. it wasnt a permission issue. evidently i created a .gpg directory instead of a .gnupg directory. i didnt realize it until i read your post. thanks for the tip everything is working now.