SupportSages » key generation http://www.supportsages.com/blog Technical Support and Server Management : Musings in the fox hole. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:05:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 gpg: no writable public keyring found: eof http://www.supportsages.com/blog/2009/12/gpg-no-writable-public-keyring-found-eof/ http://www.supportsages.com/blog/2009/12/gpg-no-writable-public-keyring-found-eof/#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:53:00 +0000 George http://www.supportsages.com/blog/?p=576 gpg --gen-key was the command issued and after a few entropy delay [+++++++++++++++++++++++++++.+++++....+++++++++++++++++++++++++........................+++++ 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.] the command failed to return gpg: no writable public keyring found: eof Key generation failed: eof Solution would be to execute rm -rf ~/.gnugpg as there were a few files in the server which was root owned. If you face any error like "GPGME: Bad passphrase", but you ...]]> gpg –gen-key was the command issued and after a few entropy delay [+++++++++++++++++++++++++++.+++++....+++++++++++++++++++++++++........................+++++
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.]

the command failed to return

gpg: no writable public keyring found: eof
Key generation failed: eof

Solution would be to execute rm -rf ~/.gnugpg as there were a few files in the server which was root owned.

If you face any error like “GPGME: Bad passphrase”, but you were never asked for a passphrase, probability that issue is with the memory. Just increase the memory limit and you should be fine. In ubuntu, it will be at /etc/security/limits.conf

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