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Carl Karl

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Registered: 2013-06-12

Posts: 231

gnupgp, pacman-keyring --> keyserver receive failed: System error|why?

Hello, I followed the official instructions about gnugpg and the pacman keyring https://www.archlinux.org/news/gnupg-21 … n-keyring/

pacman -Syu haveged
systemctl start haveged
systemctl enable haveged

rm -fr /etc/pacman.d/gnupg
pacman-key --init
pacman-key --populate archlinux

which worked fine for the main repositories.

As I use the infinality-bundle repository I had to re-add the key for infinality but that led to that error:

# pacman-key -r 962DDE58
gpg: keyserver receive failed: System error w/o errno
==> ERROR: Remote key not fetched correctly from keyserver.

Meanwhile I know that changing the keyserver to the mit-keyserver prevents that error:

/etc/pacman.d/gnupg/gpg.conf 
--------------------------
no-greeting
no-permission-warning
lock-never
keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu:11371
keyserver-options timeout=10

This combination of problem and solution is shared by two other users:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 6#p1482676
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p1482709

So while the solution/workaround is clear, I'd like to understand why that problem appeared in the first place.
Any idea?

jasonwryan

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Re: gnupgp, pacman-keyring --> keyserver receive failed: System error|why?

The key servers are notoriously flakey: I am pretty sure that is mentioned in the wiki article on GPG.

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Carl Karl

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Registered: 2013-06-12

Posts: 231

Re: gnupgp, pacman-keyring --> keyserver receive failed: System error|why?

So it's probably not my fault? Good to know. Maybe the server was overload due to that gnupgp change?

Thanks for your answer!