GPGME error: No data

I am unable to update using pamac or pacman. I tried commenting out SigLevel = PackageRequired under [multilib] in /etc/pacman.conf and I also updated my mirrors using pacman. Neither worked. I also noticed that the refresh_timestamp is empty.

sudo pamac update

Preparing…
Synchronizing package databases…
Refreshing core.db…
Refreshing extra.db…
Refreshing community.db…
Refreshing multilib.db…
Error: multilib.db: GPGME error: No data
Error: multilib.db: GPGME error: No data
Error: multilib.db: GPGME error: No data
Error: multilib.db: GPGME error: No data
invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature)
Failed to synchronize databases
Nothing to do.
Transaction successfully finished.

file /var/lib/pacman/sync/*

/var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: gzip compressed data, last modified: Mon Dec 5 22:04:25 2022, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 47117824
/var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db.sig: HTML document, ASCII text
/var/lib/pacman/sync/community.files: gzip compressed data, last modified: Sun Dec 4 16:12:51 2022, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 405024256
/var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: gzip compressed data, last modified: Sun Dec 4 06:50:12 2022, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 1186816
/var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db.sig: HTML document, ASCII text
/var/lib/pacman/sync/core.files: gzip compressed data, last modified: Sun Nov 13 17:16:58 2022, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 17860608
/var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: gzip compressed data, last modified: Mon Dec 5 16:44:23 2022, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 14224896
/var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db.sig: HTML document, ASCII text
/var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.files: gzip compressed data, last modified: Tue Nov 29 10:40:50 2022, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 111267328
/var/lib/pacman/sync/mhwd.db: gzip compressed data, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 153600
/var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db: gzip compressed data, last modified: Sun Dec 4 06:50:10 2022, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 1236480
/var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db.sig: HTML document, ASCII text
/var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.files: gzip compressed data, last modified: Thu Nov 24 15:41:06 2022, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 2209792
/var/lib/pacman/sync/refresh_timestamp: empty

Hello @_posaDose,

please take a look in this post:

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Now - why would you do that?

My thought is you implemented something you thought you remembered.

The TL:DR and the longer answer can be found in the above link.

I tried commenting it out, because I saw on another thread where it worked for someone who had the same error message.

the above did work, thank you.

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