FC3: failed to create gpg key

[James McKenzie]

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