I start “paswords and keys” (aka seahorse). Click “new”. Click “PGP key”. Fill name, email, comment.
The “create” button remains disabled.
This is a fresh 12.3 install from dvd with some gnome elements (from package depends). All mandatory
patches applied.
Session startup has “launch gnome services on startup” active.
Applications “certificate and key storage (gnome keyring: pkcs#11 component)” and “GPG password
agent (gnome keyring: GPG agent)” are both set to start (application autostart).
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from oS 12.3 “Dartmouth” GM (rescate 1))
I always use “gpg” at the command line to create new keys, so I haven’t tried that.
1: Are you using “gdm” or “kdm” for login?
2: Is the seahorse daemon running?
3: What’s the output from
printenv | egrep 'SSH|GPG'
On 2013-06-06 20:56, nrickert wrote:
>
> robin_listas;2563104 Wrote:
>> I start �paswords and keys� (aka seahorse). Click �new�. Click
>> �PGP key�. Fill name, email, comment.
>
> I always use “gpg” at the command line to create new keys, so I haven’t
> tried that.
>
> 1: Are you using “gdm” or “kdm” for login?
Neither 
The default for XFCE installs is “lightdm”
> 2: Is the seahorse daemon running?
No. It will not run till the first key is created, IIRC. It is configured to start in sesion
properties, but it is not because there are no keys yet (I think).
> 3: What’s the output from
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> printenv | egrep ‘SSH|GPG’
>
> --------------------
cer@rescate1:~> printenv | egrep 'SSH|GPG'
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/run/user/1000/keyring-nIObTb/gpg:0:1
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring-nIObTb/ssh
GPG_TTY=/dev/pts/1
cer@rescate1:~>
I started seahorse-daemon from a terminal by accident a minute ago. Tried to create a key, failed.
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Solved!
The name field needs to contain 2 words. Ie “cer” is not valid, but “cer .” is. After there are 2
words in there, the accept button lights up.
iiiich!
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from oS 12.3 “Dartmouth” GM (rescate 1))