[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#792100: sbuild-update --keygen fails if /root/.gnupg didn't exist before

Johannes Schauer josch at debian.org
Sat Jul 11 09:43:03 UTC 2015


Source: sbuild
Version: 0.65.2-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

when running `sbuild-update --keygen` on a fresh system I get:

$ sudo sbuild-update --keygen
Generating archive key.
gpg: keyblock resource `/root/.gnupg/secring.gpg': file open error
gpg: keyblock resource `/root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg': file open error

Not enough random bytes available.  Please do some other work to give
the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 187 more bytes)
.......+++++
+++++
gpg: can't create `/root/.gnupg/random_seed': No such file or directory
Exiting from key generation with status 2.



The fix is to just run `sudo mkdir /root/.gnupg` before running
`sbuild-update --keygen`. Ideally, sbuild-update would run that mkdir
command itself.

cheers, josch



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