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Benedict_White

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Registered: 2004-05-27

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[Solved] error: key "6D42BDD116E0068F" could not be looked up remotely

I am trying to find out where these keys are looked up an on what port they are looked up.

I can't control the firewall on this network so I need to find out what specific ports are involved in the look up or a manual way of importing the key for the keyring.

What I am getting in full is:

[root@forestserver ~]# pacman -S archlinux-keyring
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) archlinux-keyring-20200603-1

Total Installed Size:  1.23 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      0.56 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                           [#########################################] 100%
downloading required keys...
error: key "6D42BDD116E0068F" could not be looked up remotely
error: required key missing from keyring
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Last edited by Benedict_White (2020-06-23 14:30:53)

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Kind regards

Benedict White

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [Solved] error: key "6D42BDD116E0068F" could not be looked up remotely

Look at man pacman-key and at the gpg configuration residing in /etc/pacman.d/gnupg by default. You'll find more information in: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … ge_signing

Last edited by V1del (2020-06-23 12:09:23)

Benedict_White

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From: Sussex, UK

Registered: 2004-05-27

Posts: 331

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Re: [Solved] error: key "6D42BDD116E0068F" could not be looked up remotely

Many thanks V1del. I found that when I ran a refresh keys there was a problem with the .gnupg directory, in this case /root/.gnupg did not exist so I created it and the keys now check out.

What I need to do now is work my way through the ALA to get this server up to date.

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Kind regards

Benedict White