I can confirm this exact behaviour on Edgy: There are three possible outcomes to a 'addcardkey' command: - error (exactly same as original poster) - segfault (this actually comes after the key generation succeeds -- the results aren't saved in the keyring though) - success (this is rare, very rare)
My card reader info: * idVendor 0x04e6 SCM Microsystems, Inc. * idProduct 0x5116 SCR331-LC1 SmartCard Reader This may be of interest: http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2004-October/021422.html -- segfault when running addcardkey for OpenPGP smartcard https://launchpad.net/bugs/78120 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs