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RedArcher

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From: South Africa

Registered: 2009-09-03

Posts: 160

[SOLVED] error: GPGME error: No data

# pacman -Syyu
error: GPGME error: No data
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                      126.6 KiB  67.0 KiB/s 00:02 [########################################] 100%
 extra                                       8.4 MiB   139 KiB/s 01:02 [########################################] 100%
error: GPGME error: No data
error: failed to synchronize all databases (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))

Solved by.

rm /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db.sig

Last edited by RedArcher (2026-10-04 06:29:09)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,522

Re: [SOLVED] error: GPGME error: No data

pacman -Syyu

Don't use yy without a very good reason (like reverting from testing to non-testing repos ).

error: failed to synchronize all databases (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))

Archlinux sync DBs are not signed, /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db.sig should not existl.

Please post your /etc/pacman.conf .

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koroki

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Registered: 2013-08-03

Posts: 60

Re: [SOLVED] error: GPGME error: No data

I've had the same problem just now. I updated my system 4 days ago and few minutes ago, I couldn't do it.
I solved deleting the sig files, but I'm not sure what happen.

I do not have any difference between my pacman.conf and the pacnew file, except the inclusion of multilib.

mithrial

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Registered: 2017-03-05

Posts: 174

Re: [SOLVED] error: GPGME error: No data

This typically happens if the mirror serves weird files (probably a html page) instead of the actual databases or signatures.