PGP error

[RedKudos]

Hi,

Am relatively new to ubuntu and am still learning. HAve been reading the pgp man and the website and have installed the Kpgp frontend. Nice enough but is generating the following error when i try to create a pair of keys

[GNUPG:] PROGRESS primegen + 0 0
[GNUPG:] PROGRESS primegen + 0 0
[GNUPG:] PROGRESS primegen + 0 0
[GNUPG:] PROGRESS primegen + 0 0
[GNUPG:] PROGRESS primegen + 0 0
[GNUPG:] PROGRESS primegen ^ 0 0
[GNUPG:] PROGRESS primegen ^ 0 0
[GNUPG:] PROGRESS primegen ^ 0 0
[GNUPG:] PROGRESS primegen ^ 0 0
[GNUPG:] PROGRESS primegen ^ 0 0
[GNUPG:] PROGRESS primegen ^ 0 0
[GNUPG:] PROGRESS primegen ^ 0 0
[GNUPG:] PROGRESS primegen ^ 0 0
[GNUPG:] PROGRESS primegen ^ 0 0
[GNUPG:] PROGRESS primegen X 100 100
[GNUPG:] GOOD_PASSPHRASE
[GNUPG:] GOOD_PASSPHRASE
gpg: no writable public keyring found: eof
gpg: key generation failed: eof
[GNUPG:] KEY_NOT_CREATED

i have truncated the output as it is the same all the way down. when i was playing with the gpg at terminal i was getting errors for listing keys etc, so i had to issue the SUDO <command> to get anything to work. any hints would be appreciated