I am unable to generate a gpg key through the keyring program
Whenever I try to generate a gpg key through the system's GPG program, it asks for my name, email, and password then everything except for the GPG program's main window disappears.
Upon using gpg key-gen
gpg: can't open `/home/jesse/.gnupg/random_seed': Permission denied
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: WARNING: some OpenPGP programs can't handle a DSA key with this digest size
+++++++++++++++..++++++++++...+++++++++++++++.+++++..+++++.+++++.++++++++++.+++++++++++++++..+++++.++++++++++++++++++++.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++.+++++.+++++.+++++...+++++>+++++...+++++++++++++++++++++++++..+++++++++++++++>.+++++>+++++................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................>.+++++.................................................................................................................+++++
Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 300 more bytes)
gpg: no writable public keyring found: eof
Key generation failed: eof
gpg: note: random_seed file not updated
Solution 1:
For me, deleting the .gnugpg
folder helped:
sudo rm -rf ~/.gnugpg
Solution 2:
Permissions might be wrong after you ran gpg from root, making it impossible to modify one/some of the files as ordinary user "joey".
find ~/.gnupg -type d -exec sudo chown joey:joey {} \; -exec chmod 700 {} \;
find ~/.gnupg -type f -exec sudo chown joey:joey {} \; -exec chmod 600 {} \;
In case case you don't want to delete any existing keys, this will be helpful.