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hadian

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From: Yazd, Iran

Registered: 2008-09-09

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problem in PGP signature of a mirror - an administrative problem

i know this is an administrative affair and i am not the administrator of our network.
i asked our network administrator to launch a mirror of arch in our university and he kindly did it and it is know listed in arch mirror list. the problem is that when i update the package list it gives me error regarding PGP signature and i can not update or install package. when i update the database using another mirror, it works fine and even i can update the packages using our mirror. so the problem is only the PGP signature of our mirror.
since our admin does not work with arch, i decided to ask it here and pass him the solution.
the address of our mirror is : http://mirror.yazd.ac.ir/arch/
and here is the output of pacman -Syyu

 [root@civil-cfd ~]# pacman -Syyu
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                     108.9 KiB   111K/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
error: GPGME error: No data
error: failed to update core (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
 extra                   1482.3 KiB   138K/s 00:11 [######################] 100%
error: GPGME error: No data
error: failed to update extra (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
 community                  2.1 MiB   139K/s 00:16 [######################] 100%
error: GPGME error: No data
error: failed to update community (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
 archlinuxfr               12.2 KiB   197K/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
error: database 'core' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: database 'extra' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: database 'community' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: problem in PGP signature of a mirror - an administrative problem

There are no signatures for repo databases in Arch (hopefully sometime soon...).    It looks like you have changed the option in the default pacman.conf to require them.

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: problem in PGP signature of a mirror - an administrative problem

Perhaps this is an Antergos issue?  I certainly hope it is not.

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hadian

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From: Yazd, Iran

Registered: 2008-09-09

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Re: problem in PGP signature of a mirror - an administrative problem

Allan,
i did not change the options in pacman.conf file. and note that when i disable this mirror in "/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist" and use other mirror, the commands work well. so the problem is related to this mirror.

ewaller,
it is a pure Arch installation not Antergos or any other branch of Arch.

Last edited by hadian (2014-04-06 07:55:29)

hadian

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From: Yazd, Iran

Registered: 2008-09-09

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Re: problem in PGP signature of a mirror - an administrative problem

any comment?