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AbaddonOrmuz

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[SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

Hi there,

I just upgraded my system and since gnupg replaced dirmngr, everytime i try to add a new key or even refresh the keys i get this error:

gpg: refreshing 77 keys from hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
gpg: connecting dirmngr at '/root/.gnupg/S.dirmngr' failed: IPC connect call failed
gpg: keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

I tried to delete the /etc/pacman.d/gnupg directory and then run "pacman-key --init" again, but i don't think that could help.

# pacman-key --init
# pacman-key --refresh-keys
gpg: refreshing 77 keys from hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
gpg: connecting dirmngr at '/root/.gnupg/S.dirmngr' failed: IPC connect call failed
gpg: keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr
==> ERROR: A specified local key could not be updated from a keyserver.

# pacman-key -r <KEY>
gpg: connecting dirmngr at '/root/.gnupg/S.dirmngr' failed: IPC connect call failed
gpg: keyserver receive failed: No dirmngr

In this topic [0], the OP solved the problem by rebooting, but i did it just after upgrade (i always do that), but it didn't solve the problem.

[0] - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=190324

How can i solve this?

Last edited by AbaddonOrmuz (2014-11-27 17:06:39)

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loafer

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

Did you try renaming the .gnupg folder?

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TheSaint

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

Mine no problem.

$ pacman-key -V
pacman-key (pacman) 4.1.2

What's the version out there?
I suppose some problem with the connection.

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jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

Mine no problem.

$ pacman-key -V
pacman-key (pacman) 4.1.2

What's the version out there?
I suppose some problem with the connection.

The error message makes it pretty clear this is related to the gnupg upgrade. Please focus more on the content of the OPs posts than your own post count...

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cowsquad

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

I am facing the same issue as the OP's one

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

Did you follow loafer's suggestion?

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cowsquad

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

Did you follow loafer's suggestion?

No, but I just fixed by running the following command as root
# dirmngr </dev/null

Allan

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

Which is done in the gnupg update script...  Is your system fully up to date?

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AbaddonOrmuz

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

I thing it's solved now:

I deleted my $HOME/.gnupg and /root/.gnupg directory and then:

# dirmngr --debug-level guru
dirmngr[20243.0]: error opening '/root/.gnupg/dirmngr_ldapservers.conf': No such file or directory
dirmngr[20243.0]: permanently loaded certificates: 0
dirmngr[20243.0]:     runtime cached certificates: 0
dirmngr[20243.0]: failed to open cache dir file '/root/.gnupg/dirmngr-cache.d/DIR.txt': No such file or directory
dirmngr[20243.0]: creating directory '/root/.gnupg'
dirmngr[20243.0]: creating directory '/root/.gnupg/dirmngr-cache.d'
dirmngr[20243.0]: new cache dir file '/root/.gnupg/dirmngr-cache.d/DIR.txt' created
dirmngr[20243.0]: DBG: chan_3 -> # Home: ~/.gnupg
# Home: ~/.gnupg
dirmngr[20243.0]: DBG: chan_3 -> # Config: [none]
# Config: [none]
dirmngr[20243.0]: DBG: chan_3 -> OK Dirmngr 2.1.0 at your service
OK Dirmngr 2.1.0 at your service

I created an empty dirmngr_ldapservers.conf file and now i can refresh and add new keys

Thank you all

Last edited by AbaddonOrmuz (2014-12-05 21:19:41)

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Carl Karl

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

Thanks for sharing your solution. I had a similar problem when I tried to

# pacman-key -r 962DDE58

just adding an empty /root/.gnupg/dirmngr_ldapservers.conf solved that problem.

jmontano

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

Thanks AbaddonOrmuz, your solution worked for me!

dharmaslacker

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

I just encountered the same issue, and this solution of creating an empty dirmngr_ldapservers.conf file fixed it.

asanka126

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

Thanks @cowsquad.
I had the same problem. Running "dirmngr </dev/null"  fixed the problem for me.

Jristz

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

No, none work for me, but I read that this could be a bug in gnupg 1 so I will wait until or Allan come to a solution for pacman 4.2 or gnupg fix it.

PD: gnupg 2.1.1-beta17 supposedly fix the issue

Last edited by Jristz (2014-12-08 05:16:12)

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daniel_shub

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

I am having what I think is the same issue with gnupg 2.1.0-6, but the Bug # 42798 says that the issue has been fixed in gnupg-2.1.0-4. Has the bug resurfaced?

kozaki

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

Thanks @loafer and @cowsquad.
Had a different error and your inputs (posts #2 and #9) helped solve it.

Note: Error happened on a laptop where gnupg upgrade had been done, following the official note. 'pacman-key -r <unofficial-repo-key>' couldn't import the key. Output was something like 'gpg: <SNIP> unsupported server family'.

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nicolito

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

Thanks for the solution AbaddonOrmuz. I had the same issue as Carl Karl.
I added the empty dirmngr_ldapservers.conf to ~/.gnupg/ though, and it worked fine.

STiAT

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

btw. this one still exists on a freshly installed arch box. There is some issue there with the packaging and/or gnupg.

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mauritiusdadd

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

Hi STiAT,

take a look to this thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p1501589.
Also note that the Bug # 42798 has been reopened.
However, I could be wrong but if you have problems I think you should open a new thread since this has been already marked as [SOLVED].

Last edited by mauritiusdadd (2015-02-19 19:33:01)

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

Thanks @dharmaslacker for the solution

belissner

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

Thanks for the solution AbaddonOrmuz. I also added the empty dirmngr_ldapservers.conf to  /root/.gnupg/, and it worked fine.That worked me too! THX!

Last edited by belissner (2015-03-06 10:48:21)

ludenticus

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

# dirmngr </dev/null

It worked as well for me as I tried to add the repo-ck.

quequotion

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

Why does this also resolve the issue?

# touch /root/.gnupg/dirmngr_ldapservers.conf

Something shouldn't be depending on that file to exist.

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Klagor

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

SOLVED

moved to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=203944

Last edited by Klagor (2015-10-18 11:15:28)

luuuciano

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Re: [SOLVED] {pacman-key} keyserver refresh failed: No dirmngr

Why does this also resolve the issue?

# touch /root/.gnupg/dirmngr_ldapservers.conf

Something shouldn't be depending on that file to exist.

Been there! thanks for the tip... solved here too

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