Re: Unhelpful error message while attempting to generate key pair

2023-09-14 Thread Alan Mackenzie via Gnupg-users
Hello, Werner, Thanks for such a fast and helpful answer to my post. But I'd like to apologise for the tone of my first post, which came out rather rude, something I hadn't intended. On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 15:53:48 +0200, Werner Koch wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 20:48, Alan Mackenzie said: > >

Unhelpful error message while attempting to generate key pair

2023-09-14 Thread Alan Mackenzie via Gnupg-users
Hello, gpg. I'm trying to use gpg-2.2.41 on an up to date Gentoo GNU/Linux system. I type $ gpg --gen-key , answer the questions about my name and email address, then wait ..., and wait, ... and wait. Finally a half error message appears: agent_genkey failed: Timeout , followed by a