Issue with archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync.service refreshing one key

Question for some clarification on an ill through-through action I just performed.

I got a repeated log spam from archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync.service constantly hanging on one email address as mentioned as well in this old thread.

dec 08 15:21:39 Infinity systemd[1]: archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
dec 08 15:21:39 Infinity systemd[1]: archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
dec 08 15:21:39 Infinity systemd[1]: archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
dec 08 15:21:39 Infinity systemd[1]: Failed to start Refresh existing keys of archlinux-keyring.

dec 08 15:16:39 Infinity systemd[1]: archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
dec 08 15:16:39 Infinity systemd[1]: archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
dec 08 15:16:39 Infinity systemd[1]: archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync.service: Consumed 1.090s CPU time, 4.5M memory peak.

dec 08 15:16:36 Infinity archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync[1017427]: gpg: error retrieving 'andrew@archlinux.org' via WKD: No data
dec 08 15:16:39 Infinity archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync[1017235]: Error refreshing key B8151B117037781095514CA7BBDFFC92306B1121 with UID andrew@archlinux.org.

I can only describe my following action perhaps as ill thought-through :zipper_mouth_face:
The sync did not mention that email was or was not expired, so I removed and refreshed pacman-key database. While refresh was running I read that a pacman key refresh should not be done unless strictly necessary.

To add. I have not re-populated keys nor re-initilized the keyring and currently pacman -Syu does not throw any errors.

So now I’m wondering, have I screwed up and is this going to influence the update-ability of the system for the next stable update(s)?

Is there anyway to check this?

The Arch Linux infrastructure has been targeted by some dedicated very resourceful group which is trying to cause as much disruption as they can.

No - that should’t be a problem.

There should be no issues with removing the key

sudo pacman-key --delete andrew@archlinux.org
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Check. Also it’s not an issue I ran sudo pacman-key --refresh ?

Update, the above had no side effect, no issues running this new stable update!

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