content.key doesn't contain public key data

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 3
Subscription Management Tool 11.1

Situation

Trying to add an installation source or register with the NCC/SCC or a local SMT server pops up this error:

"Unknown Error: File /var/tmp/TmpDir.2a1lo0/DATA/content.key doesn't contain public key data"

Resolution

Checking the /var/log/YaST2/y2log showed this error:

Cannot execute external program gpg: No such file or directory

/usr/bin/gpg was either renamed or replaced with gpg1 or gpg2. Two possible solutions:

1. Re-install the gpg rpm
2. Create a softlink from gpg1 to gpg (ln -s /usr/bin/gpg1 /usr/bin/gpg)

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