Comment 5 for bug 321287

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Ihor Kaharlichenko (madkinder) wrote : Re: Seahorse will not generate a key

I confirm that gpg key generation is broken on Ubuntu 8.10 running on
Linux cesar 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:28:32 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I get pretty the same error.

Here's the info you asked:

cesar@cesar:~$ ls -A .gnupg/ -ld
drwx------ 2 cesar cesar 232 2009-03-10 16:13 .gnupg/
cesar@cesar:~$ ls -ld /home/cesar/.gnupg/
drwx------ 2 cesar cesar 232 2009-03-10 16:13 /home/cesar/.gnupg/
cesar@cesar:~$ ls -l /home/cesar/.gnupg/
Total 20
-rw------- 1 cesar cesar 28 2008-10-26 01:07 gpg.conf
-rw------- 1 cesar cesar 2614 2008-12-11 00:58 pubring.gpg
-rw------- 1 cesar cesar 2614 2008-12-11 00:58 pubring.gpg~
-rw------- 1 cesar cesar 600 2009-03-10 16:14 random_seed
-rw------- 1 cesar cesar 0 2008-10-26 02:23 secring.gpg
-rw------- 1 cesar cesar 1200 2008-12-11 00:58 trustdb.gpg

As you can see I'm the only user who has access to these files (as it should be, afaiu).