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tobik

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Registered: 2023-11-14

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] unable to update system Keyring unable to import pgp keys

I casually tried to update my system with pacman -Syu, and was prompted with the following:

:: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n]

but once I accepted all key imports failed with error: key "{key-id}" could not be imported.
Upon closer investigation I found out that the latest keyring file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/archlinux-keyring-20231113-1-any.pkg.tar.zst is corrupt.
I'm now unable to update the system or even download any packages.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

Last edited by tobik (2023-11-14 14:49:09)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,526

Re: [SOLVED] unable to update system Keyring unable to import pgp keys

Likely keyring corruption due to some failure with the wkd timer service, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … l_the_keys

tobik

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Registered: 2023-11-14

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] unable to update system Keyring unable to import pgp keys

Yes, that fixed it, thank you very much.