Re: possible BUG while doing gpg --gen-key

["Benoit Boissinot" <bboissin@gmail.com>]

On 8/24/07, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> While doing gpg --gen-key I can reproduce quite well some sort of
> crash/bug/etc:
> # gpg --gen-key

[snip]

> We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
> some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
> disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
> generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
>
[snip]
> Segmentation fault
> (...)
> Call Trace:
>  [<c0103b75>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
>  [<c0103c27>] show_stack_log_lvl+0x9d/0xa5
>  [<c0103dfc>] show_registers+0x1cd/0x2e3
>  [<c0104010>] die+0xfe/0x200
>  [<c010fb77>] do_page_fault+0x43c/0x511
>  [<c030220a>] error_code+0x6a/0x70

iirg gpg-keygen uses a lot of cpu time during that phase, you probably
should verify your ram and cpu. This kind of problem is often due to
faulty hardware.

regards,

Benoit