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#26 2012-06-14 03:54:25
- headkase
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Re: Stuck on Generating master-key
What I did: executed pacman-key --init in a terminal of course. Then in the same terminal just mashed random keys until it had enough entropy. It doesn't hurt it to do that.
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#27 2012-06-14 03:59:02
- hadrons123
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Re: Stuck on Generating master-key
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#28 2012-07-07 21:00:04
- glusk
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Re: Stuck on Generating master-key
Whew. Thanks for the "plug in a mouse and more it around" bit. Pressing random keys works too.
I had no idea this is what it needed. I'd agree that a note like, "Push a bunch of random keys now..." might be in order.
And don't forget to do this: pacman-key --populate archlinux
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#29 2017-01-26 22:40:14
- DarrenHaynes
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Re: Stuck on Generating master-key
I had same problem as OP just now, getting stuck at "Generating pacman keyring master key".
I also found that hitting "updatedb" in a separate terminal alone didn't work, but opening up a 3rd terminal and doing a "ls -R" from root directory did the trick.
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#30 2017-01-27 01:25:27
- WorMzy
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Re: Stuck on Generating master-key
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