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Mohammad Etemaddar
Asked: 2020-01-17 03:23:59 +0800 CST

gpg: keyserver receive failed: Server indicated a failure

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I want to add a new repository, But I get error at the beginning:

$ gpg --verbose --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv 886DDD89
gpg: keyserver receive failed: Server indicated a failure

I also tried adding hkp:// and :80. But did not work:

$ gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net:80 --recv 886DDD89
gpg: keyserver receive failed: Server indicated a failure

Also changed the DNS in resolv.conf to:

nameserver 8.8.8.8 # Google dns

It got the same error. I tried to use the --verbose option. But had no new debugging info.

networking gnupg

1 Answers

  1. I do not have the complete explanation, but can say this on Ubuntu 21:

    Before:

    gpg: keyserver receive failed: Server indicated a failure

    Seeing that dirmngr was involved, I just launched dirmngr as root, and it did something

    # dirmngr
dirmngr[2410562]: No ldapserver file at: '/root/.gnupg/dirmngr_ldapservers.conf'
dirmngr[2410562.0]: permanently loaded certificates: 129
dirmngr[2410562.0]:     runtime cached certificates: 0
dirmngr[2410562.0]:            trusted certificates: 129 (128,0,0,1)
dirmngr[2410562.0]: failed to open cache dir file '/root/.gnupg/crls.d/DIR.txt': No such file or directory
dirmngr[2410562.0]: creating directory '/root/.gnupg'
dirmngr[2410562.0]: creating directory '/root/.gnupg/crls.d'
dirmngr[2410562.0]: new cache dir file '/root/.gnupg/crls.d/DIR.txt' created
# Home: /root/.gnupg
# Config: [none]
OK Dirmngr 2.2.19 at your service
^C

    After:

    apt-key adv --verbose --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E6A233DBE3AFBEFC
Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.DKSIEGHESTIAa/gpg.1.sh --verbose --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E6A233DBE3AFBEFC
gpg: no running Dirmngr - starting '/usr/bin/dirmngr'
gpg: waiting for the dirmngr to come up ... (5s)
gpg: connection to dirmngr established
gpg: data source: http://162.213.33.8:11371
gpg: armor header: Comment: Hostname:
gpg: armor header: Version: Hockeypuck ~unreleased
gpg: pub  dsa1024/E6A233DBE3AFBEFC 2011-04-08  Björn Kautler <[email protected]>
gpg: key E6A233DBE3AFBEFC: public key "Björn Kautler <[email protected]>" imported
gpg: no running gpg-agent - starting '/usr/bin/gpg-agent'
gpg: waiting for the agent to come up ... (5s)
gpg: connection to agent established
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1

    Could it be that creating the default certificates and directories for dirmngr helped? Best regards, xgiannak

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