Package: dirmngr Version: 2.1.8-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
This was originally reported in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771666 Which was closed with 2.1.7, but I can reproduce this in 2.1.8: ============================== [phil@rider ~]$ gpg2 --debug-all --keyserver hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net --search-keys 58E11BB1E414D9AD gpg: reading options from '/home/phil/.gnupg/gpg.conf' gpg: enabled debug flags: packet mpi crypto filter iobuf memory cache memstat trust hashing cardio ipc clock lookup extprog gpg: DBG: [not enabled in the source] start gpg: DBG: chan_3 <- # Home: /home/phil/.gnupg gpg: DBG: chan_3 <- # Config: /home/phil/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf gpg: DBG: chan_3 <- OK Dirmngr 2.1.8 at your service gpg: DBG: chan_4 <- # Home: /home/phil/.gnupg gpg: DBG: chan_4 <- # Config: /home/phil/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf gpg: DBG: chan_4 <- OK Dirmngr 2.1.8 at your service gpg: DBG: connection to the dirmngr established gpg: DBG: chan_4 -> KEYSERVER --clear hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net gpg: DBG: chan_4 <- OK gpg: DBG: chan_4 -> KS_SEARCH -- 58E11BB1E414D9AD gpg: DBG: chan_4 <- ERR 1 General error <Unspecified source> gpg: error searching keyserver: General error gpg: keyserver search failed: General error gpg: DBG: chan_4 -> BYE gpg: DBG: [not enabled in the source] stop gpg: random usage: poolsize=600 mixed=0 polls=0/0 added=0/0 outmix=0 getlvl1=0/0 getlvl2=0/0 gpg: secmem usage: 0/65536 bytes in 0 blocks ================================================== This seems to be the same output from others who have experienced this issue -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages dirmngr depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii libassuan0 2.3.0-1 ii libc6 2.19-22 ii libgcrypt20 1.6.3-2 ii libgnutls-deb0-28 3.3.18-1 ii libgpg-error0 1.20-1 ii libksba8 1.3.3-1 ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.42+dfsg-2 ii libnpth0 1.2-1 ii lsb-base 9.20150917 dirmngr recommends no packages. dirmngr suggests no packages. -- no debconf information