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weirddan455

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Registered: 2012-04-15

Posts: 209

Custom kernel configuration breaks pacman-key --refresh-keys

I can't run "pacman-key --refresh-keys" under my custom kernel.  I get the following error:

gpg: refreshing 80 keys from hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
gpg: keyserver refresh failed: Address family not supported by protocol
==> ERROR: A specified local key could not be updated from a keyserver.

However when I reboot into the stock ARCH kernel, it works fine suggesting it's a problem with my custom kernel configuration.  Would anyone happen to know what I may have left out so that I can configure it back in?  The rest of GPG seems to be working, it's just refreshing the keys that's broken.

jdevelop

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Registered: 2014-04-18

Posts: 48

Re: Custom kernel configuration breaks pacman-key --refresh-keys

For someone who like me stumbled upon the same problem after 2018 - the cause was disabled IPv6 in kernel config.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,739

Re: Custom kernel configuration breaks pacman-key --refresh-keys

Thanks for the useful information, however seeing as this thread is two years old, I'll close this now.

Closing.