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vitiral

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Registered: 2015-09-16

Posts: 10

[solved] pacman-key --refresh keys gives error, unable to refresh keys

I am currently unable to refresh my keys using pacman-keys --refresh-keys

$ sudo pacman-key --refresh-keys
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.

Because of this, I am unable to update my packages because of this issue:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=156905

Can anyone help?

Last edited by vitiral (2016-01-26 20:35:06)

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4,097

Re: [solved] pacman-key --refresh keys gives error, unable to refresh keys

The keys you need to refresh are also in the newly-updated archlinux-keyring package.

Just update that first, then update the rest of your packages.

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vitiral

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Registered: 2015-09-16

Posts: 10

Re: [solved] pacman-key --refresh keys gives error, unable to refresh keys

Yup, that totally worked! thanks!