On 2019-09-16, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On one of my machines, I'm unable to do "emerge --sync" because the > key update fails: > > $ sudo emerge --sync > >>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/var/db/repos/gentoo'... > * Using keys from /usr/share/openpgp-keys/gentoo-release.asc > * Refreshing keys via WKD ... > [ !! ] > * Refreshing keys from keyserver hkps://keys.gentoo.org ...OpenPGP keyring > refresh failed: > gpg: refreshing 4 keys from hkps://keys.gentoo.org > gpg: keyserver refresh failed: General error > > OpenPGP keyring refresh failed: > gpg: refreshing 4 keys from hkps://keys.gentoo.org > gpg: keyserver refresh failed: General error > > I haven't figured out whey the WKD line is failing.
Re-emerging gnutls fixed that, so now it doesn't try to access hkps://keys.gentoo.org, and everything's good. I've no idea _why_ re-emerging gnutls fixed it, but it seems to be a somewhat well-known bit of cargo-cult adminning: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/comments/cp5pm0/cannot_run_emerge_sync/ -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! What GOOD is a at CARDBOARD suitcase ANYWAY? gmail.com
