On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 10:21:10 -0400 matthew dyer via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
> Good morning all, > > I am wondering if anyone is having problems refreshing PGP keys from the > default server? I can force it to use the ipv4 server, but using > mate-terminal with orca I am unable to edit the /etc/pacman.d/gnu/pgp.conf > file to change the server. Orca will not read it and plume will not open it > with sudo rites. Any ideas on this one? This is an older arch vm which will > not update till the PGP keys have been updated and imported. I do not have > speech in a conc so that would not work. Thanks. > > Matthew The SKS pools are not in good shape right now. Should work fine using the ubuntu keyserver. You should be able to update the archlinux-keyring package then update the system. If it's old enough that it doesn't have the key for archlinux-keyring, it's not going to have pacman 5.2 and won't be able to successfully update anyway. The hooks in current packages require pacman 5.2.
