Attempting to import SUSE project's signing key

Addanc · November 13, 2020, 7:44pm

Can anybody give me a clue about the following error:

$ gpg --recv-keys 0x22C07BA534178CD02EFE22AAB88B2FD43DBDC284
gpg: keyserver receive failed: General error

Thanks in advance.

Sauerland · November 13, 2020, 8:00pm

gpg -vv --recv-keys 0x22C07BA534178CD02EFE22AAB88B2FD43DBDC284

nrickert · November 13, 2020, 9:46pm

I just tested that.


% gpg --recv-key 0x22C07BA534178CD02EFE22AAB88B2FD43DBDC284
gpg: key B88B2FD43DBDC284: "openSUSE Project Signing Key <opensuse@opensuse.org>" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:              unchanged: 1

So I guess it worked, but with no changes to the imported key (no changes since I last imported).

Whether it works at all may depend on your configured keyserver. It looks as if I am using “hkp://pgpkeys.mit.edu”.

vetko · March 26, 2021, 11:58pm

I have the same issue but on Leap 15.2 (fresh install 1 week ago).
Does anybody have a suggestion what is going wrong?


gpg --recv-keys 0x22C07BA534178CD02EFE22AAB88B2FD43DBDC284 
gpg: keyserver receive failed: General error

I did not change anything in the gnupg configuration.

Sauerland · March 27, 2021, 12:19am

Try it as User.

vetko · March 27, 2021, 12:38am

Can you please specify what do you mean?
I am already running this command under my own user (not root).

Sauerland · March 27, 2021, 12:55am

As root I get the above error, as User I get:

linux64:/home/stephan # LANG=C gpg --recv-keys 0x22C07BA534178CD02EFE22AAB88B2FD43DBDC284
gpg: keyserver receive failed: General error
linux64:/home/stephan # exit
stephan@linux64:~> LANG=C gpg --recv-keys 0x22C07BA534178CD02EFE22AAB88B2FD43DBDC284 
gpg: key B88B2FD43DBDC284: "openSUSE Project Signing Key <opensuse@opensuse.org>" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:              unchanged: 1
stephan@linux64:~>

nrickert · March 27, 2021, 1:18am

I think there’s actually a pool of keyservers. So if it fail on the first try, it might work on the second try due to connecting to a different keyserver.

vetko · March 27, 2021, 1:26am

Unfortunately, I was trying it almost constantly in the last 3 hours, and never worked.
Can it be some configuration issue? (I already tried deleting the .gnupg folder, didn’t fix it.)

vetko · March 27, 2021, 1:41am

ArchWiki saved the day

If receiving fails with the message gpg: keyserver receive failed: General error, and you use the default hkps keyserver pool, make sure set the HKPS pool verification certificate with hkp-cacert /usr/share/gnupg/sks-keyservers.netCA.pem in your dirmngr.conf and kill the old dirmngr process.

From: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GnuPG

Issue solved.
There is only one question left: why does this work for others out of the box? Do you maybe already have this line in your dirmngr.conf?