[Bug 480034] [NEW] Seahorse corrupts trustdb.gpg databse when no password is given while creating an openGPG key

[mahen]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: seahorse

Ubuntu 9.10, AMD64.

Well, this bug is quite easy to trigger.

Seahorse -> File -> New -> GPG Key
when a password is asked, don't choose any, just validate (it is accepted by seahorse as both (empty) passwords are the same :)

Then a popup window "key generation / primegen" is displayed for a very short time, 
then the error windows is displayed : "general error".

OK, so far it's not an issue because it wasn't supposed to work.

BUT THEN all subsequent attempts to create a GPG key will fail. After
"key generation / primegen" is displayed for several minutes, you also
get "general error".

When I tried to create a key via the terminal I obtained :
gpg: fatal: /home/sandra/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: base de confiance invalide

So I figured out that the .gnupg files were corrupted by my first
attempt to create a key while not providing any password. Indeed, there
were even some data in "pubring.gpg" with my name in it, that had been
added during my failed attempts.

Anyway, after deleting .gnupg, everything worked as expected. I still think, though, that this behaviour is a bug :)
Cheers, thanks for reading ;)

** Affects: seahorse (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Seahorse corrupts trustdb.gpg databse when no password is given while creating an openGPG key
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/480034
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