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Date:      Sun, 31 May 2015 16:28:45 +0200
From:      "Dr. Peter Voigt" <pvoigt@uos.de>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Error message when refreshing keys
Message-ID:  <20150531162845.2c61197a@kirk.drpetervoigt.private>
In-Reply-To: <20150528105601.474ec8fe@kirk.drpetervoigt.private>
References:  <20150528105601.474ec8fe@kirk.drpetervoigt.private>

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On Thu, 28 May 2015 10:56:01 +0200
"Dr. Peter Voigt" <pvoigt@uos.de> wrote:

> I am on 10.1-RELEASE (amd64) and have installed latest gpg 2.0.27
> from ports. When issuing
> 
> # gpg --refresh-keys
> 
> operation seems to work but I am getting following error messages at
> the end:
> 
> ...
> gpg: keyserver communications error: Not found
> gpg: keyserver communications error: Bad public key
> gpg: keyserver refresh failed: Bad public key
> 
> On an openSUSE machine I have installed gpg 2.0.22 and I have no such
> error message.
> 
> Is this a know error? What does it mean? Is it FreeBSD specific? 
> 
> Any hints are appreciated.
> 
> Peter

Well, I experimented a bit: I completely deleted my public keyring and
re-imported all keys from a keyserver. I had one key not available on a
keyserver that caused the error message. After deleting the key in
question, no error messages show up any more.

GPG 2.0.22, however, does not complain about this key.

Peter



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