Ubuntu 14.04 fully up-to-date here: Hi everyone, thanks to the help of user @TJ- on #ubuntu+1 we were able to discover that the issue I was getting is related to this bug:
[...] Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe Translation-en_US Fetched 4.737 B in 33s (141 B/s) Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: http://archive.canonical.com trusty Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5 NO_PUBKEY 3B4FE6ACC0B21F32 W: GPG error: http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 16126D3A3E5C1192 W: GPG error: http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5 NO_PUBKEY 3B4FE6ACC0B21F32 W: GPG error: http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5 NO_PUBKEY 3B4FE6ACC0B21F32 W: GPG error: http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5 NO_PUBKEY 3B4FE6ACC0B21F32 W: GPG error: http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5 NO_PUBKEY 3B4FE6ACC0B21F32 What I did: 1. sudo apt-get clean 2. sudo mv /var/lib/apt/lists /var/apt/lists.old 3. mkdir -p /var/lib/apt/lists/partial 4. sudo apt-get update And got the same error so, next thing was trying to reinstall 'ubuntu- keyring': http://pastebin.com/Zr9TppeL Other relevant info: "07:32:49 TJ- | msx: The debian bug explains the issue ... too many keyrings being passed to gpg" "07:35:23 TJ- | msx: Summary is, remove empty keyrings from "/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/" Issue solved here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1263540 Title: Apt-get reports NO_PUBKEY gpg error for keys that are present in trusted.gpg. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/apt/+bug/1263540/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs