Welp ... must be something about my ISP the keyserver doesn't like. It works from inside a container when the container host is using a VPN server in NL. Sigh ... another day wasted troubleshooting a service I pay for.
-- How many people can stand on the shoulders of a giant before the giant collapses? Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Monday, June 16th, 2025 at 7:23 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <zn...@algocompsynth.com> wrote: > This is a freshly installed Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. `gpg` and `dirmngr` are > installed. I also tried it in a `bookworm` Docker container and I'm getting > the same error. > > The web page for the keyserver shows that it's there. > > https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?search=0x95C0FAF38DB3CCAD0C080A7BDC78B2DDEABC47B7&fingerprint=on&op=index > > So if it's an issue with my ISP connecting to that specific keyserver, how > can I find other keyservers to try? > > > > > -- > How many people can stand on the shoulders of a giant before the giant > collapses? > > Sent with Proton Mail secure email. > > > On Monday, June 16th, 2025 at 7:00 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel e...@debian.org > wrote: > > > (Editing your email from the unreadable vertical format popular with some) > > > > On 17 June 2025 at 01:45, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > > | Has the key changed? According to > > https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/debian/ I should be able to get a key via > > | > > | $ gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key > > '95C0FAF38DB3CCAD0C080A7BDC78B2DDEABC47B7' > > | > > | But on my Debian "bookworm" systems I am getting > > | > > | $ gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key > > '95C0FAF38DB3CCAD0C080A7BDC78B2DDEABC47B7' > > | gpg: directory '/home/znmeb/.gnupg' created > > | gpg: keybox '/home/znmeb/.gnupg/pubring.kbx' created > > | gpg: keyserver receive failed: Server indicated a failure > > | > > | Am I doing something wrong, or has the key changed? > > > > That is an error message you are getting from a particular remote > > server. Have you tried another? Could you have network issues? PGP/GPG use a > > network of mirroring servers. > > > > For what it is worth, it works here in a Debian container (using my > > rocker/r-base container here) after I 'apt install gpg dirmngr': > > > > root@cd7dcc85a57f:/# gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key > > '95C0FAF38DB3CCAD0C080A7BDC78B2DDEABC47B7' > > gpg: /root/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created > > gpg: key DC78B2DDEABC47B7: public key "Johannes Ranke > > johannes.ra...@jrwb.de" imported > > > > gpg: error running '/usr/bin/gpg-agent': probably not installed > > gpg: failed to start gpg-agent '/usr/bin/gpg-agent': Configuration error > > gpg: can't connect to the gpg-agent: Configuration error > > gpg: Total number processed: 1 > > gpg: imported: 1 > > root@cd7dcc85a57f:/# > > > > Dirk > > > > -- > > dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
