PGP-Signature Error - can't update

[FluffyDuck]

I’ve been at this now for a while, trying the following things I found in the forum and the wiki:

Pacman troubleshooting

[david@Alita2024 ~]$ rm manjaro-keyring* archlinux-keyring*
[david@Alita2024 ~]$ curl -O https://mirror.easyname.at/manjaro/pool/overlay/manjaro-keyring-20230719-3-any.pkg.tar.zst
[david@Alita2024 ~]$ curl -O https://mirror.easyname.at/manjaro/pool/sync/archlinux-keyring-20250430.1-1-any.pkg.tar.zst

(Did I maybe choose the wrong files?)

[david@Alita2024 ~]$ sudo rm -r /etc/pacman.d/gnupg
[david@Alita2024 ~]$ sudo pacman-key --init
gpg: /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trust-db erzeugt
gpg: keine ultimativ vertrauenswürdigen Schlüssel gefunden
gpg: starting migration from earlier GnuPG versions
gpg: porting secret keys from '/etc/pacman.d/gnupg/secring.gpg' to gpg-agent
gpg: migration succeeded
==> Pacman Hauptschlüssel generieren. Kann eine Weile dauern.
gpg: Generating pacman keyring master key...
gpg: Verzeichnis `/etc/pacman.d/gnupg/openpgp-revocs.d' erzeugt
gpg: Widerrufzertifikat wurde als '/etc/pacman.d/gnupg/openpgp-revocs.d/87B2ADADFB36BBD63C770597188739C9CC1A2109.rev' gespeichert.
gpg: Done
==> Aktualisiere Trust-Datenbank...
gpg: marginals needed: 3  completes needed: 1  trust model: pgp
gpg: Tiefe: 0  gültig:   1  signiert:   0  Vertrauen: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u

[david@Alita2024 ~]$ sudo pacman -U manjaro-keyring*.pkg.tar.zst archlinux-keyring*.pkg.tar.zst
Fehler: GPGME-Fehler: Keine Daten
Fehler: GPGME-Fehler: Keine Daten
Fehler: GPGME-Fehler: Keine Daten
Fehler: Datenbank »core« ist nicht gültig (Ungültige oder beschädigte Datenbank (PGP-Signatur))
Fehler: Datenbank »extra« ist nicht gültig (Ungültige oder beschädigte Datenbank (PGP-Signatur))
Fehler: Datenbank »multilib« ist nicht gültig (Ungültige oder beschädigte Datenbank (PGP-Signatur))
Pakete werden geladen …
Warnung: manjaro-keyring-20230719-3 ist aktuell -- Reinstalliere
Warnung: archlinux-keyring-20250430.1-1 ist aktuell -- Reinstalliere
Fehler: Vorgang konnte nicht vorbereitet werden (Ungültige oder beschädigte Datenbank)

Looked like id did not solve my problem and “sudo pacman -Syu” did provide the same outcome as before

After further research I tried the following (PGP signature inferno "Invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)" - #10 by itgmo):

sudo rm -rf /etc/pacman.d/gnupg
sudo pacman-key --init
sudo pacman-key --populate
sudo pacman-mirrors -c Global

this also did not solve the problem. A week ago I tried several other things I found on the forum, I did not write down and don’t quite remember.
The solution is probably somewhere in there…
Thanks for reading this!

[Mirdarthos]

Hi @FluffyDuck, and welcome!

I believe this will help:

PGP Could not be imported

That scenario happens when the Manjaro packages are much older than on the mirror. Unterstand that: You have pgp keys preinstalled on the iso. Manjaro is rolling and keys will change. Normally the pkgs archlinux-keyring and manjaro-keyring are signed with the previous keys. But in your situation: it just skips to the new pkgs, but it cannot be verified with your current key. So generally: Key is there. It retrieves archlinux-keyring and manjaro-keyring, which contain the new keys, which ar…

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[FluffyDuck]

Thanks for the quick answer and the tips how to post.
Unfortunatly I got the same error messages again.

[david@Alita2024 ~]$ LC_ALL=C sudo pacman -Syw archlinux-keyring manjaro-keyring --cachedir $HOME/.cache/pkg/
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                           143.2 KiB   675 KiB/s 00:00 [###########################################] 100%
 extra                                            8.3 MiB  21.3 MiB/s 00:00 [###########################################] 100%
 multilib                                       147.9 KiB   729 KiB/s 00:00 [###########################################] 100%
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: failed to synchronize all databases (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
[david@Alita2024 ~]$ LC_ALL=C sudo rm -f $HOME/.cache/pkg/*.sig
[david@Alita2024 ~]$ LC_ALL=C sudo pacman -U $HOME/.cache/pkg/*.tar.zst
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: database 'core' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: database 'extra' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: database 'multilib' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
loading packages...
error: '/home/david/.cache/pkg/*.tar.zst': could not find or read package
[david@Alita2024 ~]$ LC_ALL=C sudo pacman -Sc
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
Packages to keep:
  All locally installed packages

Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
:: Do you want to remove all other packages from cache? [Y/n] y
removing old packages from cache...

Database directory: /var/lib/pacman/
:: Do you want to remove unused repositories? [Y/n] y
removing unused sync repositories...
[david@Alita2024 ~]$ LC_ALL=C sudo rm -Rf $HOME/.cache/pkg/
[david@Alita2024 ~]$ LC_ALL=C sudo pacman -Syu
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed to synchronize all databases (unable to lock database)

after “sudo pacman -Syw archlinux-keyring manjaro-keyring --cachedir $HOME/.cache/pkg/” provided already errors the following steps were probably futile.

[megavolt]

@FluffyDuck

Fehler: GPGME-Fehler: Keine Daten
Fehler: GPGME-Fehler: Keine Daten
Fehler: GPGME-Fehler: Keine Daten
Fehler: Datenbank »core« ist nicht gültig (Ungültige oder beschädigte Datenbank (PGP-Signatur))
Fehler: Datenbank »extra« ist nicht gültig (Ungültige oder beschädigte Datenbank (PGP-Signatur))
Fehler: Datenbank »multilib« ist nicht gültig (Ungültige oder beschädigte Datenbank (PGP-Signatur))

Take a look here:

[root tip] [How To] Mitigate and prevent GPGME error when syncing your system

You are getting a message when syncing your system error: GPGME error: No data error: failed to synchronize all databases (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature)) Before you continue [SOLVED] Error updating system (error: GPGME error: No data) / Newbie Corner / Arch Linux Forums Pacman troubleshooting - Manjaro Pacman looking for database signature files Also see this pacman bugreport from 2015 - which was closed as not a bug but a matter of configuration. FS#44445 : "GPGME err…

[FluffyDuck]

Hey megavolt, that was the solution.
I’m so grateful to both of you and happy it worked! Thank you so much!