On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 13:48 +0800, Xia Bin wrote: > Hi all, > > It seems that I have some problems in sending this post to the > gnupg-users mailing list, so I post a copy here. > > The "gpg --gen-key" command failed on my machine, > Here is the error message: > > ---------------------------------------------- > > gpg: no writable public keyring found: eof > Key generation failed: eof > gpg: can't create `/home/xia/.gnupg/random_seed': No such file or directory Does the directory .gnupg exist under your home directory? If not, create it. I ran into problems importing a public key and had to create the directory. James McKenzie
