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Hi all,
I've been experiencing problems with
$ gpg2 --refresh-keys
gpg: refreshing 18 keys from hkps://keys.openpgp.org
gpg: keyserver refresh failed: General error
As you can gather from the above, I've configured the keyserver to be
hkps://keys.openpgp.org in ~/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf as suggested here [1]. This
is the full content of ~/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf:
keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org
verbose
debug 4096
debug-level 4096
debug-all
log-file /tmp/dirmngr.log
Running gpg2 --refresh-keys again after pkill dirmngr gives this in
/tmp/dirmngr.log
2020-04-19 23:36:35 dirmngr[20588.0] listening on socket
'/home/whoami/.gnupg/S.dirmngr'
2020-04-19 23:36:35 dirmngr[20589.0] can't access directory
'/etc/gnupg2/trusted-certs': No such file or directory
2020-04-19 23:36:35 dirmngr[20589.0] can't access directory
'/etc/gnupg2/extra-certs': No such file or directory
2020-04-19 23:36:35 dirmngr[20589.0] permanently loaded certificates: 0
2020-04-19 23:36:35 dirmngr[20589.0] runtime cached certificates: 0
2020-04-19 23:36:36 dirmngr[20589.0] handler for fd 0 started
2020-04-19 23:36:36 dirmngr[20589.0] DBG: chan_0 -> # Home:
/home/whoami/.gnupg
2020-04-19 23:36:36 dirmngr[20589.0] DBG: chan_0 -> # Config:
/home/whoami/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf
2020-04-19 23:36:36 dirmngr[20589.0] DBG: chan_0 -> OK Dirmngr 2.1.11 at your
service
2020-04-19 23:36:36 dirmngr[20589.0] connection from process 20586
(1000:1000)
2020-04-19 23:36:36 dirmngr[20589.0] DBG: chan_0 D 2.1.11
2020-04-19 23:36:36 dirmngr[20589.0] DBG: chan_0 -> OK
2020-04-19 23:36:36 dirmngr[20589.0] DBG: chan_0 S KEYSERVER
hkps://keys.openpgp.org
2020-04-19 23:36:36 dirmngr[20589.0] DBG: chan_0 -> OK
2020-04-19 23:36:36 dirmngr[20589.0] DBG: chan_0
