Maybe this info can be added to the manual or the help text of gpkg. "if you are a developer you can also disable package signature checking from apt, see man apt for details" or something like that.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gnupg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/706011 Title: gpg --key-gen doesn't have enough entropy and rng-tools install/start fails Status in gnupg package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: gnupg Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS Release: 10.04 If you install gpg and then type: gpg --gen-key, it 'freezes up' during the entropy gathering phase. .... 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. Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 278 more bytes) .... (freeze here) I found some reference on the interwebs suggesting to install rng- tools so that the rngd daemon can gather more entropy for the system because by default cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail has a very very low number. Thus, installation of rng-tools, fails to start the rngd daemon... Setting up rng-tools (2-unofficial-mt.12-1ubuntu3) ... Trying to create /dev/hwrng device inode... Starting Hardware RNG entropy gatherer daemon: (failed). invoke-rc.d: initscript rng-tools, action "start" failed. It is then required to do this: echo "HRNGDEVICE=/dev/urandom" >> /etc/default/rng-tools and then start rngd: /etc/init.d/rng-tools start After this process is done, gpg --gen-key is immediate... 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. .........+++++ ...+++++ 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. +++++ .+++++ And cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail has a much higher number. All in all, I think this process should be simplified by maybe making gpg depend on rng-tools. The whole reason why I need to generate a gpg key is because I want to sign the .deb debians that I'm creating for my repository. Thanks for your time. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg/+bug/706011/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp