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marcosdsanchez

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[SOLVED] Gpg:problem importing key-No such file or directory<Dirmngr>

I'm getting the error

gpg: keyserver receive failed: No such file or directory

when trying to import a public pgp key.

Gpg version:

gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.19
libgcrypt 1.8.5
Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Home: /home/marcos/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA, EDDSA
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,
        CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
Hash: SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

Example:

➜  ~ gpg --recv-keys 424CC0FF
gpg: keyserver receive failed: No such file or directory

When debugging the command, I get the following output:

➜  ~ gpg -vvv --debug-all --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 424CC0FF
gpg: Note: no default option file '/home/marcos/.gnupg/gpg.conf'
gpg: using character set 'utf-8'
gpg: enabled debug flags: packet mpi crypto filter iobuf memory cache memstat trust hashing ipc clock lookup extprog
gpg: DBG: [not enabled in the source] start
gpg: DBG: chan_3 <- # Home: /home/marcos/.gnupg
gpg: DBG: chan_3 <- # Config: [none]
gpg: DBG: chan_3 <- OK Dirmngr 2.2.19 at your service
gpg: DBG: connection to the dirmngr established
gpg: DBG: chan_3 -> GETINFO version
gpg: DBG: chan_3 <- D 2.2.19
gpg: DBG: chan_3 <- OK
gpg: DBG: chan_3 -> KEYSERVER --clear hkp://pgp.mit.edu
gpg: DBG: chan_3 <- OK
gpg: DBG: chan_3 -> KS_GET -- 0x424CC0FF
gpg: DBG: chan_3 <- ERR 167805009 No such file or directory <Dirmngr>
gpg: keyserver receive failed: No such file or directory
gpg: DBG: chan_3 -> BYE
gpg: DBG: [not enabled in the source] stop
gpg: keydb: handles=0 locks=0 parse=0 get=0
gpg:        build=0 update=0 insert=0 delete=0
gpg:        reset=0 found=0 not=0 cache=0 not=0
gpg: kid_not_found_cache: count=0 peak=0 flushes=0
gpg: sig_cache: total=0 cached=0 good=0 bad=0
gpg: random usage: poolsize=600 mixed=0 polls=0/0 added=0/0
              outmix=0 getlvl1=0/0 getlvl2=0/0
gpg: rndjent stat: collector=0x0000000000000000 calls=0 bytes=0
gpg: secmem usage: 0/32768 bytes in 0 blocks

I've removed both

~/.gnupg

and

/root/.gnupg

I also rebooted but the problem persists.

Any ideas of how to fix the issue?

Last edited by marcosdsanchez (2020-01-30 17:04:00)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Gpg:problem importing key-No such file or directory<Dirmngr>

Looks like you need to setup your ~/.gnupg folder correctly.

remove ~/.gnupg completely , then run gpg without any options to allow gpg as user to setup the basic stuff.
post the output of gpg first run.

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marcosdsanchez

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Registered: 2014-12-18

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Re: [SOLVED] Gpg:problem importing key-No such file or directory<Dirmngr>

Thank you very much Lone_Wolf for your answer.

I've followed your instructions and this is the output:

➜  ~ rm -rf ~/.gnupg 
➜  ~ gpg
gpg: directory '/home/marcos/.gnupg' created
gpg: keybox '/home/marcos/.gnupg/pubring.kbx' created
gpg: WARNING: no command supplied.  Trying to guess what you mean ...
gpg: Go ahead and type your message ...
^C
gpg: signal Interrupt caught ... exiting

➜  ~ gpg --recv-keys 424CC0FF          
gpg: keyserver receive failed: No such file or directory

Thoughts?

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Gpg:problem importing key-No such file or directory<Dirmngr>

killall gpg-agent dirmngr

Then try again.

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marcosdsanchez

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Registered: 2014-12-18

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Re: [SOLVED] Gpg:problem importing key-No such file or directory<Dirmngr>

Thanks seth.

Output:

➜  ~ rm -rf ~/.gnupg          
➜  ~ gpg                      
gpg: directory '/home/marcos/.gnupg' created
gpg: keybox '/home/marcos/.gnupg/pubring.kbx' created
gpg: WARNING: no command supplied.  Trying to guess what you mean ...
gpg: Go ahead and type your message ...
^C
gpg: signal Interrupt caught ... exiting

➜  ~ killall gpg-agent dirmngr
gpg-agent: no process found
dirmngr: no process found
➜  ~ gpg --recv-keys 424CC0FF 
gpg: keyserver receive failed: No such file or directory

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Gpg:problem importing key-No such file or directory<Dirmngr>

ls -l  ~/.gnupg
strace gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --receive-keys 424CC0FF

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marcosdsanchez

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Re: [SOLVED] Gpg:problem importing key-No such file or directory<Dirmngr>

Thanks!

➜  ~ ls -l  ~/.gnupg         
total 4
drwx------ 2 marcos marcos 3488 ene 30 12:23 crls.d
-rw------- 1 marcos marcos   32 ene 30 12:23 pubring.kbx
➜  ~

The output of strace is here: https://gist.github.com/marcosdsanchez/ … d3ce02e9b8

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Gpg:problem importing key-No such file or directory<Dirmngr>

Do you use systemd-resolved?

ls -l /etc/resolv.conf
cat /etc/resolv.conf

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marcosdsanchez

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Re: [SOLVED] Gpg:problem importing key-No such file or directory<Dirmngr>

Do you use systemd-resolved?

➜  ~ sudo systemctl is-active systemd-resolved.service 
inactive

Looks like I do not.

I do use dnscrypt-proxy

➜  ~ ls -l /etc/resolv.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 dic 23 08:45 /etc/resolv.conf -> ../run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf

➜  ~ cat /etc/resolv.conf    
cat: /etc/resolv.conf: No such file or directory

but

➜  ~ cat /etc/resolvconf.conf                  
# Configuration for resolvconf(8)
# See resolvconf.conf(5) for details

#resolv_conf=/etc/resolv.conf
# If you run a local name server, you should uncomment the below line and
# configure your subscribers configuration files below.

# (dis-en)able for dnscrypt-proxy
nameserver ::1
nameserver 127.0.0.1
options edns0 single-request-reopen

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Gpg:problem importing key-No such file or directory<Dirmngr>

Looks like I do not.
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 dic 23 08:45 /etc/resolv.conf -> ../run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf
…
cat: /etc/resolv.conf: No such file or directory

There's your problem. Remove the symlink and create a proper resolve.conf (resolvconf.conf si the config file to generate resolve.conf using resolvconf ;-)
You can edit it by hand.

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marcosdsanchez

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Re: [SOLVED] Gpg:problem importing key-No such file or directory<Dirmngr>

That fixed the problem.

For reference, I copied the contents of /etc/resolvconf.conf to /etc/resolv.conf and also set the file to immutable by executing:

chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

This is explained in the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Do … esolv.conf

Thanks to all involved!