Ubuntu
seahorse package

  1. Bug #321287
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 321287

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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote : Re: Seahorse will not generate a key

@nUboon2Age (and, actually, just for the record, since s/he did not subscribe to this bug... fire-and-forget type of thing)

> $ ls -l ~/.gnupg/*.gpg
> ls: cannot access /home/<username>/.gnupg/*.gpg: Permission denied

The above is already good enough to state your userId does not seem to be the owner of the directory ~/.gnupg, or of the files under it. Either one or the other gave you a "Permission denied" error.

You can find out byt running 'ls -la ~ | grep gnupg'.