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LinuxShadow

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Registered: 2019-05-04

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gpg: keyserver receive failed

Hi there,

I'm currently trying to install the renderdoc package which requires me to import an gpg key in order to install it, but
whenever I run gpg --recv-keys 1B039DB9A4718A2D699DE031AC612C3120C34695 it fails with the error gpg: keyserver receive failed: General error.

Using yay returns

:: Importing keys with gpg......
gpg: keyserver receive failed: General error
==> Error: Problem importing keys

I'm currently running Arch Linux 5.4.39-1-lts.
As I've read somewhere that restarting dirmngr might help, I tried this, thought it did not fix the problem.

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,048

Re: gpg: keyserver receive failed

gpg uses the hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net pool by default.  Have you tried the two other common servers listed in GnuPG#Use_a_keyserverp or pgp.mit.edu?
Edit:
How did you restart dirmnr?

Last edited by loqs (2020-05-09 19:45:25)

LinuxShadow

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Registered: 2019-05-04

Posts: 26

Re: gpg: keyserver receive failed

gpg uses the hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net pool by default.  Have you tried the two other common servers listed in GnuPG#Use_a_keyserverp or pgp.mit.edu?
Edit:
How did you restart dirmnr?

By killing its pid and then typing in the shell dirmngr.
I did not test the other key servers. So to change the keyserver to e.g. pgp.mit.edu I would add the following line to my ~/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf file?: keyserver=pgp.mit.edu

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: gpg: keyserver receive failed

The three servers I mentioned with two commented out:

keyserver https://keys.openpgp.org
#keyserver hkps://keys.mailvelope.com 
#keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu

From my test only of those three only keys.openpgp.org had the key.  The default pool hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net also had the key.