Wants to write to ~/.gnupg but dir. doesn't exist

Bug #815034 reported by Doug McMahon
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
software-properties (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

The latest version works fine but does show
gpg: fatal: /home/doug/.gnupg: directory does not exist!
secmem usage: 0/0 bytes in 0/0 blocks of pool 0/32768

If I give it the dir. it happily writes a file there - trustdb.gpg -
gpg: /home/doug/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-properties-gtk 0.81.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-5.6-generic 3.0.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-5-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jul 23 06:34:54 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110717)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-properties
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package software-properties - 0.81.3

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software-properties (0.81.3) oneiric; urgency=low

  * softwareproperties/gtk/SimpleGtkbuilderApp.py:
    - remove unneeded debug output for gobjects without a get_name()
      function
  * softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py:
    - do not crash if update-notifier is not installed (LP: #815016)
  * softwareproperties/AptAuth.py:
    - do not access ~/.gnupg from AptAuth() (LP: #815034)
  * softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py:
    - add CDROM add support into the dbus backend (LP: #815860)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:15:30 +0200

Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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