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Swizarc

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Registered: 2015-08-30

Posts: 9

Key BD8984D2 was created x seconds in the future

Running into an issue trying to set up and import a key for a custom repo. This is on a fresh install.

If I try to issue a sudo pacman-key --init I get the following:

gpg: key BD8984D2 was created 27073 seconds in the future (time warp or clock problem)

My hardware clock is set to UTC and is correct and the date and time are set correctly as well. No matter what I do with pacman-key I receive the error. I've tried going though https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman-key but obviously I'm stuck at initialising the keyring.

How can I resolve this?

twelveeighty

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From: Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2011-09-04

Posts: 1,116

Re: Key BD8984D2 was created x seconds in the future

It sounds to me that the custom repo has the clock problem, not you. You may be able to force it by passing in gpg's --ignore-time-conflict option somehow through pacman-key (check the man page if that's a possibility).

Swizarc

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Registered: 2015-08-30

Posts: 9

Re: Key BD8984D2 was created x seconds in the future

It sounds to me that the custom repo has the clock problem, not you. You may be able to force it by passing in gpg's --ignore-time-conflict option somehow through pacman-key (check the man page if that's a possibility).

The problem is the key is the Pacman Keyring Master Key so I think the problem is on my end. I receive this error even without having the custom repo configured and without the key if if just try to initialise it.

Swizarc

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Registered: 2015-08-30

Posts: 9

Re: Key BD8984D2 was created x seconds in the future

I figured this out kinda. I just simply rebooted then things worked just fine.

laggardkernel

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Registered: 2019-03-21

Posts: 3

Re: Key BD8984D2 was created x seconds in the future

The problem is caused by out-of-sync local time. To be specific, the pacman master key was created when a wrong time set in your OS. This may cause the timestamp of the pacman master key is in the future after you correct the time on your OS (possibly by ntp).

We need to recreate the pacman master key after correct time set on the OS.

# enable ntp and ensure the time correct
timedatectl set-ntp 1
timedatectl status

rm -fr /etc/pacman.d/gnupg
# create pacman master key
pacman-key --init
# reload keys from keyring resources
pacman-key --populate

WorMzy

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2010-06-16

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Re: Key BD8984D2 was created x seconds in the future

Mod note: closing this old thread.

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