I can confirm that bionic is affected too. Maybe the installer image is missing some gnupg tools? I observed that with a minimal install I cannot use "apt-key" within the installed system because there is no gnupg installed at all.
This is really disappointing. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1553121 Title: Xenial preseed fails to load key for 3rd party repo with apt- setup/local0/key To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-setup/+bug/1553121/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs