On Thursday, 5 July 2018 23:05:51 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-07-05, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2018-07-05, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 2018-07-05, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.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?
It could be a congestion issue. I have noticed the same with different key servers at times. -- Regards, Mick
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