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Keystone

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Registered: 2025-11-29

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Cannot import PGP keys when trying to update with Yay

Terminal is saying

:: Remove make dependencies after install? [y/N] y
:: (1/4) Parsing SRCINFO: grantlee
:: (2/4) Parsing SRCINFO: librewolf-bin
:: (3/4) Parsing SRCINFO: ventoy-bin
:: (4/4) Parsing SRCINFO: networkmanager-iwd
gpg: keydb_search failed: Invalid argument
gpg: error reading key: Invalid argument
gpg: keydb_search failed: Invalid argument
gpg: error reading key: Invalid argument

:: PGP keys need importing:
-> FCA530E51EE4331C2DF16637D264C7B1D02D6509, required by: grantlee
-> 662E3CDD6FE329002D0CA5BB40339DD82B12EF16, required by: librewolf-bin
:: Import? [Y/n] y
:: Importing keys with gpg...
gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: Value not found
gpg: error writing keyring '[keyboxd]': SQL library used incorrectly
gpg: error reading '[stream]': SQL library used incorrectly
gpg: Total number processed: 0
-> problem importing keys

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 75,086

Re: Cannot import PGP keys when trying to update with Yay

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=311140

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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 14,951

Re: Cannot import PGP keys when trying to update with Yay

Please use [ code ] [ /code ] tags for program/terminal output , see https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

Try searching for / importing the key manually, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GnuPG# … public_key has examples.

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