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TinyMid

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Registered: 2020-05-13

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I can't receive keys on pacman-key

I keep getting the following error:

pacman-key --recv-key EA50C866329648EE
gpg: keyserver receive failed: General error
==> ERROR: Remote key not fetched correctly from keyserver.

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: I can't receive keys on pacman-key

Try another keyserver: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … mport_keys

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Palanthis

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From: Virginia, USA

Registered: 2017-11-16

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Re: I can't receive keys on pacman-key

I am getting the exact same error on 5 different machines (hardware), as well as on VMs. These are repos that I have used for years and they suddenly stopped working. I've done all of the troubleshooting from the above link. These even fail on a clean install (Yes, real Arch, installed the real Arch way). The keys I have seen the issue with are:

andontie-AUR - EA50C866329648EE
disastrousaur - CBAE582A876533FD

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: I can't receive keys on pacman-key

I've done all of the troubleshooting from the above link.

Please post the troubleshooting you performed with the output it generated.  Specifically commands fetching the keys from different servers.
Edit:

$ gpg --search-keys EA50C866329648EE
gpg: error searching keyserver: General error
gpg: keyserver search failed: General error
$ gpg --keyserver https://keys.openpgp.org --search-keys EA50C866329648EE
gpg: data source: https://keys.openpgp.org:443
(1)	  2048 bit RSA key EA50C866329648EE, created: 2019-01-16
Keys 1-1 of 1 for "EA50C866329648EE".  Enter number(s), N)ext, or Q)uit >

Last edited by loqs (2020-07-24 18:57:48)