Can't import PGP key ArchLinux
Fix updating issue with missing PGP key on ArchLinux
This morning I tried updating my ArchLinux server at home and stumbled into an issue where it wasn't able to find the PGP public key of one of the developers:
[root@shuttle ~]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (33) archlinux-keyring-20200603-1 bison-3.6.3-1 ca-certificates-mozilla-3.53-1 conmon-1:2.0.17-1 cryptsetup-2.3.3-1 dbus-1.12.18-1 device-mapper-2.02.187-3 git-2.27.0-1
glib-networking-2.64.3-2 gnupg-2.2.20-4 gnutls-3.6.14-1 go-2:1.14.4-1 iana-etc-20200601-1 iproute2-5.7.0-1 iptables-1:1.8.5-2 libgpg-error-1.38-1 libksba-1.4.0-1 libnghttp2-1.41.0-1
linux-5.6.15.arch1-1 linux-firmware-20200519.8ba6fa6-1 lvm2-2.02.187-3 openssh-8.3p1-1 pacman-mirrorlist-20200606-1 pciutils-3.7.0-1 perl-5.30.3-1 pkgconf-1.7.3-1
python-setuptools-1:47.1.1-1 runc-1.0.0rc90-1 slirp4netns-1.1.1-1 sqlite-3.32.2-1 systemd-245.6-4 systemd-libs-245.6-4 systemd-sysvcompat-245.6-4
Total Installed Size: 1294.85 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 28.49 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
(33/33) checking keys in keyring [##########################################################################] 100%
downloading required keys...
:: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] Y
error: key "3B94A80E50A477C7" could not be looked up remotely
:: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] Y
error: key "3B94A80E50A477C7" could not be looked up remotely
error: required key missing from keyring
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
The key 3B94A80E50A477C7 wasn't found anywhere.
The fix is to first update the archlinux-keyring package first which contained the key, and then proceed with the normal update.
[root@shuttle ~]# pacman -S archlinux-keyring
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (1) archlinux-keyring-20200603-1
Total Installed Size: 1.23 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.01 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [##########################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [##########################################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [##########################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [##########################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space [##########################################################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) upgrading archlinux-keyring [##########################################################################] 100%
==> Appending keys from archlinux.gpg...
==> Locally signing trusted keys in keyring...
-> Locally signing key D8AFDDA07A5B6EDFA7D8CCDAD6D055F927843F1C...
-> Locally signing key DDB867B92AA789C165EEFA799B729B06A680C281...
-> Locally signing key 91FFE0700E80619CEB73235CA88E23E377514E00...
-> Locally signing key 0E8B644079F599DFC1DDC3973348882F6AC6A4C2...
-> Locally signing key AB19265E5D7D20687D303246BA1DFB64FFF979E7...
==> Importing owner trust values...
==> Disabling revoked keys in keyring...
-> Disabling key 8F76BEEA0289F9E1D3E229C05F946DED983D4366...
-> Disabling key 63F395DE2D6398BBE458F281F2DBB4931985A992...
-> Disabling key 50F33E2E5B0C3D900424ABE89BDCF497A4BBCC7F...
-> Disabling key 27FFC4769E19F096D41D9265A04F9397CDFD6BB0...
-> Disabling key 39F880E50E49A4D11341E8F939E4F17F295AFBF4...
-> Disabling key 8840BD07FC24CB7CE394A07CCF7037A4F27FB7DA...
-> Disabling key 5559BC1A32B8F76B3FCCD9555FA5E5544F010D48...
-> Disabling key 0B20CA1931F5DA3A70D0F8D2EA6836E1AB441196...
-> Disabling key 07DFD3A0BC213FA12EDC217559B3122E2FA915EC...
-> Disabling key 4FCF887689C41B09506BE8D5F3E1D5C5D30DB0AD...
-> Disabling key 5A2257D19FF7E1E0E415968CE62F853100F0D0F0...
-> Disabling key D921CABED130A5690EF1896E81AF739EC0711BF1...
-> Disabling key 7FA647CD89891DEDC060287BB9113D1ED21E1A55...
-> Disabling key BC1FBE4D2826A0B51E47ED62E2539214C6C11350...
-> Disabling key 4A8B17E20B88ACA61860009B5CED81B7C2E5C0D2...
-> Disabling key 5696C003B0854206450C8E5BE613C09CB4440678...
-> Disabling key 684148BB25B49E986A4944C55184252D824B18E8...
-> Disabling key 8CF934E339CAD8ABF342E822E711306E3C4F88BC...
-> Disabling key F5A361A3A13554B85E57DDDAAF7EF7873CFD4BB6...
-> Disabling key 5E7585ADFF106BFFBBA319DC654B877A0864983E...
-> Disabling key 65EEFE022108E2B708CBFCF7F9E712E59AF5F22A...
-> Disabling key 40440DC037C05620984379A6761FAD69BA06C6A9...
-> Disabling key 34C5D94FE7E7913E86DC427E7FB1A3800C84C0A5...
-> Disabling key 81D7F8241DB38BC759C80FCE3A726C6170E80477...
-> Disabling key E7210A59715F6940CF9A4E36A001876699AD6E84...
-> Disabling key 5357F3B111688D88C1D88119FCF2CB179205AC90...
-> Disabling key 4D913AECD81726D9A6C74F0ADA6426DD215B37AD...
-> Disabling key FB871F0131FEA4FB5A9192B4C8880A6406361833...
-> Disabling key 66BD74A036D522F51DD70A3C7F2A16726521E06D...
-> Disabling key B1F2C889CB2CCB2ADA36D963097D629E437520BD...
-> Disabling key 9515D8A8EAB88E49BB65EDBCE6B456CAF15447D5...
-> Disabling key 76B4192E902C0A52642C63C273B8ED52F1D357C1...
-> Disabling key 40776A5221EF5AD468A4906D42A1DB15EC133BAD...
-> Disabling key D4DE5ABDE2A7287644EAC7E36D1A9E70E19DAA50...
-> Disabling key 44D4A033AC140143927397D47EFD567D4C7EA887...
==> Updating trust database...
gpg: next trustdb check due at 2020-10-17
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...