[gentoo-user] Re: How to update public keys?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2018-07-05, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 2018-07-05, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On 2018-07-05, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> As of today, I seem to be unable to a an "emerge --sync".
>>>
>>> The process either hangs forever at the "Refreshing keys from keyserver step:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> Or, it fails because there are no public key to verify a manfest:
>>
>> For now, I've had to set add "sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest = no" to
>> my repo conf file so that I can actually do updates, but that seems
>> like a dangerous work-around.
>
> After turning off sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest and doing a sync and
> update (which included app-crypt/openpgp-keys-gentoo-release-20180703),
> I had hoped that I would be able to turn it back on, but now I get this:
>
>     # emerge --sync
>     >>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/usr/portage'...
>      * Using keys from /usr/share/openpgp-keys/gentoo-release.asc
>      * Refreshing keys from keyserver ...OpenPGP keyring refresh failed:
>     gpg: refreshing 4 keys from hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net
>     gpg: keyserver refresh failed: General error
>
>     OpenPGP keyring refresh failed:
>     gpg: refreshing 4 keys from hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net
>     gpg: keyserver refresh failed: General error
>
>     OpenPGP keyring refresh failed:
>     gpg: refreshing 4 keys from hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net
>     gpg: keyserver refresh failed: General error
>
> The last four lines repeat forever with an increasingly longer period.

I never did figure what was causing the "General error".  After about
an hour of googling and reading descriptions of unrelated problems, it
just started working with no changes to any configuration.  Apparently
a server issue?

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