[horde] Error generating pgp key pair

[Larry Honig]

Hi, I am sending this from my newly installed Horde Groupware Edition  
1.1 RC1, which I seem to have set up correctly. I have a production  
version of IMP 4.01 /Horde 3.0 running as well, and they both have the  
same problem.

In either version of Horde, I can successfully go to the page in IMP  
which allows me to generate or upload a key pair. When I attempt to  
create a key pair using Horde itself, it warns me that it will take a  
long time, and about two minutes later, I receive this message:

Public/Private keypair not generated successfully.

I have tried to RTFM but there does not appear to be any one place  
where the setup procedure for generating keys is explained. Googling  
"HORDE Public/Private keypair not generated successfully." and  
numerous variations also turns up nothing, except links to various  
translations of HORDE itself. The Horde Help link indicates that if  
the key pair is not generated then an error message explaning why will  
be displayed, but the message I see contains nothing I can use to  
debug what is going on! I have also enabled logging (at the  
PEAR_LOG_NOTICE level) of Horde messages to /var/log/horde.log but  
there are no relevant messages in there at all - just the normal stuff  
of logging in, etc..

I can use the command line gpgp on the server that hosts Horde just  
fine, and OpenSSL is installed and running, and php 5-mcrypt is also  
installed, if that helps.

The system's path to Gnupg is /usr/bin/gpg, and that is entered  
correctly. The path to the certificate bundle is /etc/ssl/certs, which  
is correct. The path to openssl is /usr/bin/openssl, which is correct.  
The public keyserver 'pgp.mit.edu' is selected. The server itself is  
Ubuntu 6.01 LTS, with a very recent apt-get dist-upgrade. Everything  
else on both Horde installs seems to work just fine.

What am I doing wrong? I would guess there is some sort of permissions  
issue someplace, but I have no idea what to begin to look at. Horde is  
NOT running  chrooted.

Thanks in advance for any help. We've been living with this inabilty  
for a couple of years (it has always seemed to be too much of a PITA  
to diagnose) but I got into it again over the holidays, and I would  
really like to get this working!



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