A lot of requests to openpgpkey.archlinux.org

RobinSch · 2024-09-05 12:14:02

Hello everyone!

It seems like my laptop is making a lot of requests to openpgpkey.archlinux.org, about every 5-10 seconds. Does anyone know why this is the case? Or how to lower the interval?

Thanks in advance

gromit · 2024-09-05 13:18:46

I guess this is caused by "archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync.service" and the related timer that take care of syncing the keyring from the web directory

Head_on_a_Stick · 2024-09-05 14:05:07

RobinSch wrote:

how to lower the interval?

# systemctl mask archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync

Note that just disabling the service or timer doesn't stop it because the Arch developers have decided to treat the users as if they were small children

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2024-09-05 14:05:42)

seth · 2024-09-05 14:14:41

The service should not run every 5-10 seconds unless it fails, so check the services status or your system journal itr.

systemctl status archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync.service

@HoaS, why would/does disabling the timer not work?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System … Management

Head_on_a_Stick · 2024-09-05 14:25:44

seth wrote:

why would/does disabling the timer not work?

It will get re-enabled after the archlinux-keyring package is updated:

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … =heads#L74

Not cool, Arch devs, not cool.

gromit · 2024-09-05 14:48:22

@Head_on_a_Stick proficient users can just NoExtract the files, others are better off like this But this is not related to the original question, so lets keep it at this ..

Head_on_a_Stick · 2024-09-05 15:38:18

gromit wrote:

proficient users can just NoExtract the files, others are better off like this

Well this "non-proficient" user is extremely irritated that they have to do that at all. Forcefully enabling services goes against the basic ethos of Arch. IMO.

EDIT: and anyway using NoExtract wouldn't stop you sneaky bastards enabling the service through some other underhand, devious method

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2024-09-05 15:42:38)

seth · 2024-09-05 16:15:38

The timer could be activated via post-install (not post-update) hook, but ftr. there're several "mandatory" timers (man-db, updatedb, shadow, logrotate, tmpfiles-clean, …) that are just installed with some package, so it's not specifically aggressive.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2024-09-05 16:17:23

seth wrote:

there're several "mandatory" timers (man-db, updatedb, shadow, logrotate, tmpfiles-clean, …) that are just installed with some package

But those are supplied by upstream.

seth wrote:

it's not specifically aggressive

Of course not. Apologies to all if that's how I came across.

seth · 2024-09-05 16:20:05

So is the keyring timer, it's just, like w/ pacman, a more incestuous relationship between up- and downstream.

RobinSch · 2024-09-06 14:11:27

seth wrote:

The service should not run every 5-10 seconds unless it fails, so check the services status or your system journal itr.

Wel.....

○ archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync.service - Refresh existing keys of archlinux-keyring
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync.service; static)
     Active: inactive (dead)
TriggeredBy: ● archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync.timer

FYI: I didn't change a single thing except reboot since last time.
Although now it doesn't seem to be spamming requests anymore?

seth · 2024-09-06 19:33:58

Presumingly it succeeded, or the timer has given up until next week - did it actually reach the server or are you aware of the traffic because you were intercepting it?

What happens if you just start it?

systemctl start archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync.service

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A lot of requests to openpgpkey.archlinux.org

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