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the_snow_man

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Registered: 2013-07-19

Posts: 4

[Solved] Pacman says sigs are invalid; can't connect to keyservers

I just followed the instructions here to access my Arch installation while booted into Windows via Virtualbox. My Arch installation works fine on its own. I'm trying to get X running when I run it through Virtualbox.

I want to install virtualbox-guest-utils, but Pacman says the signature is invalid. I know this can be caused by the system time being off, but I have NTPd, and I checked that the time is accurate using ``timedatectl status''.

I tried re-installing archlinux-keyring (which I was able to install fine, no signature problem... not sure why it's not consistent), but it made no difference. I tried to add Sebastien's key, which I found here, using pacman-key, but I get ``gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: Failed to connect to pool.sks-keyservers.net port 11371: No route to host''. I tried using subkeys.pgp.net as the key server too, and the same thing happened. It seems I can't even ping either of those key servers: I get ``Destination Host Prohibited''. However, I can ping them from the Windows host.

Last edited by the_snow_man (2014-03-20 01:10:00)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [Solved] Pacman says sigs are invalid; can't connect to keyservers

Have you treid using the kjsl keyserver? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … mport_keys

keyserver hkp://keyserver.kjsl.com:80

the_snow_man

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Registered: 2013-07-19

Posts: 4

Re: [Solved] Pacman says sigs are invalid; can't connect to keyservers

Thanks, this worked. It still confuses me that I could ping these keyservers from my Windows host but not from my Arch guest, since I would expect the problem to be my ISP.