[SOLVED] keyserver refresh failed: General error

[Arvo]

Hi,

Trying to install gentoo on my machine. emerge-webrsync worked with no problems, but
doing emerge --sync fails

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(chroot) gentoo / # 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
(chroot) gentoo / # 

[Prof. Frink]

Jo,

what does

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 emerge --info | grep GENTOO_MIRRORS

say?

[Arvo]

It lists servers from Germany and Sweden (which I chose with mirrorselect).

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GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ https://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ rsync://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ https://ftp.fau.de/gentoo http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo ftp://ftp.fau.de/gentoo rsync://ftp.fau.de/gentoo https://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ rsync://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.mdfnet.se/gentoo https://mirror.mdfnet.se/gentoo"

[Prof. Frink]

Okay, which mirrorselect-command did you run? Maybe:

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mirrorselect -a

And what is the output of

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grep GENTOO_MIRRORS /etc/portage/make.conf

Maybe just try to set

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GENTOO_MIRRORS="rsync://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/"

which works for me right now, but this depends on the protocol (rsync in my case) you have choosen via

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cat /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf
[DEFAULT]

After changing the mirror try to run

[code]emerge --newuse --sync

main-repo = gentoo

[gentoo]
location = /usr/portage
sync-type = rsync
#sync-uri = rsync://rsync11.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
sync-uri = rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/
auto-sync = yes
[/code]

and also on the software running on your computer.

[Arvo]

Okay, which mirrorselect-command did you run?

- I ran

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mirrorselect -i -o >> /etc/portage/make.conf

And what is the output of ..make.conf

The same servers as I previously listed.

Maybe just try to set ...

OpenPGP keyring refresh still fails.


Thank you so much for taking attention for my issue.


Running

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(chroot) gentoo / # cat /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf
[DEFAULT]
main-repo = gentoo

[gentoo]
location = /var/db/repos/gentoo
sync-type = rsync
sync-uri = rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
auto-sync = yes
sync-rsync-verify-jobs = 1
sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest = yes
sync-rsync-verify-max-age = 24
sync-openpgp-key-path = /usr/share/openpgp-keys/gentoo-release.asc
sync-openpgp-keyserver = hkps://keys.gentoo.org
sync-openpgp-key-refresh-retry-count = 40
sync-openpgp-key-refresh-retry-overall-timeout = 1200
sync-openpgp-key-refresh-retry-delay-exp-base = 2
sync-openpgp-key-refresh-retry-delay-max = 60
sync-openpgp-key-refresh-retry-delay-mult = 4
sync-webrsync-verify-signature = yes

# for daily squashfs snapshots
#sync-type = squashdelta
#sync-uri = mirror://gentoo/../snapshots/squashfs

Could the Issue be fixed by changing the sync-openpgp-keyserver value?

[Prof. Frink]

Maybe your

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gentoo-release.asc

is broken somehow. I have no idea how this could be the case and probably this is not the case. But you could try to replace it after doing a backup from it.

But it's better if someone who know better about this, answers this question.

Good Luck

[Arvo]

Good news! I found the solution!
The problem was already addressed here in the forums . I don't know why I didn't find it earlier.
Thank you for your help prof link. I truly appreciate it.

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I install gentoo follow the wiki, at this step emerge-webrsync,it's OK but emerge --sync, I get this error
OpenPGP keyring refresh failed:
gpg: refreshing 4 keys from hkps://keys.gentoo.org
gpg: keyserver refresh failed: General error
sorry for my poor English.

Hi,
rebuild the net-libs/gnutls package should probably help, see Bug 690760

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emerge -av --oneshot net-libs/gnutls

For the record, I used the stage3 systemd tarball.

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http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/20190928/systemd/stage3-amd64-systemd-20190928.tar.bz2

[Prof. Frink]

Okay,. nice.