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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Failures refreshing keys
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 19:49:20
Message-Id: qloovc$1bn6$1@blaine.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Failures refreshing keys by Grant Edwards
1 On 2019-09-16, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On one of my machines, I'm unable to do "emerge --sync" because the
3 > key update fails:
4 >
5 > $ sudo emerge --sync
6 > >>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/var/db/repos/gentoo'...
7 > * Using keys from /usr/share/openpgp-keys/gentoo-release.asc
8 > * Refreshing keys via WKD ... [ !! ]
9 > * Refreshing keys from keyserver hkps://keys.gentoo.org ...OpenPGP keyring refresh failed:
10 > gpg: refreshing 4 keys from hkps://keys.gentoo.org
11 > gpg: keyserver refresh failed: General error
12 >
13 > OpenPGP keyring refresh failed:
14 > gpg: refreshing 4 keys from hkps://keys.gentoo.org
15 > gpg: keyserver refresh failed: General error
16 >
17 > I haven't figured out whey the WKD line is failing.
18
19 Re-emerging gnutls fixed that, so now it doesn't try to access
20 hkps://keys.gentoo.org, and everything's good.
21
22 I've no idea _why_ re-emerging gnutls fixed it, but it seems to be a
23 somewhat well-known bit of cargo-cult adminning:
24
25 https://www.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/comments/cp5pm0/cannot_run_emerge_sync/
26
27 --
28 Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! What GOOD is a
29 at CARDBOARD suitcase ANYWAY?
30 gmail.com