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On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 server, we are unable to generate the gpg key.
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Description

Unable to generate the gpg key with "gpg2 --gen-key" command though GPG_TTY
is set to /dev/tty for a normal user. Multiple instances of gpg-agent are
getting started when we trigger gpg --gen-key command where I expect only
one agent should be running at any time.

gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.22
libgcrypt 1.5.3
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,

CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256

Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

As a normal user, when I am trying to create gpg key it is failing at the
below step.

Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? O
You need a Passphrase to protect your secret key.

gpg: cancelled by user
gpg: Key generation canceled.

Please assist.

Details

Version
2.0.22

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Please ask on the gnupg-users mailing list for help.

Some quick hints:
Is your pinentry properly installed? Is gpg-agent running? Does gnome-keyring
interfere with gpg-agent?

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