The new update of Manjaro fails: key

Awfully sorry, but I don’t understand where these commands should be put. After each Error-line with keys in terminal, like" key “C06086337C50773E” could not be looked up remotely"?

Hi there. I also had similar key trouble when I tried out Manjaro virtually before I took the step installing last month. The suggested last gpg command as Stephane described worked fine for me, but with ubuntus keyserver. So according to your terminal output you have problems with six keys? So if you want to fix the first key with the ubuntu server enter:

gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key 428F7ECC7117F726

and to go for the second one:

gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key CAA6A59611C7F07E

… and so on. Really hope this helps! Another tip if you want terminal output in English is to first enter:

export LANG=C

Hi jqv and thanks for your help.
It is embarrassing but I finally found out what you just described and had replaced keys from different keyservers and the six keys were imported.

However, the errors still resists, the keys can’t be looked up remotely during “sudo pacman -Syyu”.
Are the keys overwritten in the process? Or are they beeing put into a wrong place? If it is due to a invalid file, how can I replace that file?

Thanks for your language tip!

Hmm, how very disappointing that it didn’t work out… I am a total noob at pacman but very interested in knowing how to fix things, manjaro it’s my main daily system now days, and anybody here would probably agree that knowing how to fix the horrible situation you are in is a good thing!
So perhaps the terminal output in English would give some clues to whats going on? And sudo dmesg perhaps?
Edit: Another thing I was thinking about is time and firewalls, output date correct?
Edit 2: Can’t find anybody mentioning the Manjaro Pacman troubleshooting wiki page (do not have rights to link to it, so search) in this thread, but I am sure you tried that?

Hi jgv and thanks for your patience!
Check of Time/Date is OK. Firewall has default settings, never changed by me.
The sudo dmesg produced 39 pages full of text and I don’t know what to search for.

The result of ”sudo pacman -Syyu”:
[lars@lars-pc ~]$ sudo pacman -Syyu
[sudo] password for lars:
:: Synchronizing package databases…
core 169,9 KiB 5,53 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
extra 2016,3 KiB 10,9 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
community 6,1 MiB 7,31 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
multilib 194,6 KiB 6,34 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
:: Some packages should be upgraded first…
resolving dependencies…
looking for conflicting packages…

Packages (2) archlinux-keyring-20200820-1  manjaro-system-20200906-1

Total Installed Size:  1,29 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      0,05 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
(2/2) checking keys in keyring                     [######################] 100%
downloading required keys...
:: Import PGP key CAA6A59611C7F07E, "Philip Mueller <philm@manjaro.org>"? [Y/n] Y
error: key "CAA6A59611C7F07E" could not be looked up remotely
error: required key missing from keyring
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

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Total Download Size:    796,64 MiB
Total Installed Size:  3512,99 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:         4,81 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
:: Retrieving packages...
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 lib32-polkit-0.1...    48,9 KiB  0,00   B/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 lib32-libpsl-0.2...    54,3 KiB  0,00   B/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 lib32-libva-mesa...     2,6 MiB  9,45 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 lib32-mesa-vdpau...     2,8 MiB  4,98 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
 lib32-vulkan-icd...   121,0 KiB  5,91 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 lib32-vulkan-int...  2028,0 KiB  7,92 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 lib32-vulkan-rad...  1581,9 KiB  8,13 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 steam-manjaro-1....     2,8 MiB  3,39 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
(198/198) checking keys in keyring                 [######################] 100%
downloading required keys...
:: Import PGP key 7A4E76095D8A52E4, "Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] Y
:: Import PGP key 428F7ECC7117F726, "Helmut Stult <helmut@manjaro.org>"? [Y/n] Y
error: key "428F7ECC7117F726" could not be looked up remotely
:: Import PGP key FC1B547C8D8172C8, "Levente Polyak <anthraxx@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] Y
:: Import PGP key B02854ED753E0F1F, "Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>"? [Y/n] Y
error: key "B02854ED753E0F1F" could not be looked up remotely
:: Import PGP key CAA6A59611C7F07E, "Philip Mueller <philm@manjaro.org>"? [Y/n] Y
error: key "CAA6A59611C7F07E" could not be looked up remotely
:: Import PGP key 019A7474297D8577, "Daniel Bermond <dbermond@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] Y
error: key "019A7474297D8577" could not be looked up remotely
:: Import PGP key 06096A6AD1CEDDAC, "Laurent Carlier <lordheavym@gmail.com>"? [Y/n] Y
error: key "06096A6AD1CEDDAC" could not be looked up remotely
:: Import PGP key A3D9562A589874AB, "Juergen Hoetzel <juergen@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] Y
:: Import PGP key 6D1655C14CE1C13E, "Florian Pritz <bluewind@xinu.at>"? [Y/n] Y
error: key "6D1655C14CE1C13E" could not be looked up remotely
:: Import PGP key 9D893EC4DAAF9129, "Bruno Pagani <archange@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] Y
error: key "9D893EC4DAAF9129" could not be looked up remotely
:: Import PGP key F22FB1D78A77AEAB, "Giancarlo Razzolini <grazzolini@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] Y
:: Import PGP key C06086337C50773E, "Jelle van der Waa <jelle@vdwaa.nl>"? [Y/n] Y
error: key "C06086337C50773E" could not be looked up remotely
:: Import PGP key 396E3E25BAB142C1, "Kyle Keen <keenerd@gmail.com>"? [Y/n] Y
error: key "396E3E25BAB142C1" could not be looked up remotely
:: Import PGP key 901C1C320EB0D45D, "Johannes Löthberg <demize@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] Y
:: Import PGP key 150C200743ED46D8, "Mark Wagie <mark@manjaro.org>"? [Y/n] Y
error: key "150C200743ED46D8" could not be looked up remotely
error: required key missing from keyring
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
[lars@lars-pc ~]$ 

Thanks for tipping Manjaro Pacman troubleshooting wiki, I am going to study it.

Hi JQV, tried the steps in the Manjaro Pacman troubleshooting wiki page.
The control of time shows the correct time
[lars@lars-pc ~]$ date
tor 10 sep 2020 07:23:54 CEST
However
[lars@lars-pc ~]$ hwclock
hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
hwclock: Use the --verbose option to see the details of our search for an access method.

Didn’t know if accessing the computers clock is crucial when the time is correct so I tried the wikis steps to recognize signature keys:

sudo rm -r /etc/pacman.d/gnupg

sudo pacman -Sy gnupg archlinux-keyring manjaro-keyring

[lars@lars-pc ~]$ sudo pacman -Sy gnupg archlinux-keyring manjaro-keyring
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra                2016,3 KiB  10,4 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 community               6,1 MiB  10,8 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
 multilib is up to date
:: Some packages should be upgraded first...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (2) archlinux-keyring-20200820-1  manjaro-system-20200906-1

Total Installed Size:  1,29 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      0,05 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
(2/2) checking keys in keyring                     [######################] 100%
warning: Public keyring not found; have you run 'pacman-key --init'?
downloading required keys...
error: keyring is not writable
error: keyring is not writable
error: required key missing from keyring
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

warning: manjaro-keyring-20200603-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (3) archlinux-keyring-20200820-1  gnupg-2.2.23-1
             manjaro-keyring-20200603-1

Total Installed Size:  11,48 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       0,18 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
(3/3) checking keys in keyring                     [######################] 100%
downloading required keys...
error: keyring is not writable
error: keyring is not writable
error: keyring is not writable
error: required key missing from keyring
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
[lars@lars-pc ~]$ 

Due to the above ”warning: Public keyring not found; have you run ‘pacman-key –init’?” I tried:

[lars@lars-pc ~]$ sudo pacman-key --init
gpg: /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: starting migration from earlier GnuPG versions
gpg: porting secret keys from '/etc/pacman.d/gnupg/secring.gpg' to gpg-agent
gpg: migration succeeded
gpg: Generating pacman keyring master key...
gpg: key 9C0231BDA5543A1A marked as ultimately trusted
gpg: directory '/etc/pacman.d/gnupg/openpgp-revocs.d' created
gpg: revocation certificate stored as '/etc/pacman.d/gnupg/openpgp-revocs.d/E330BA7F414F3240DFB7AE809C0231BDA5543A1A.rev'
gpg: Done
==> Updating trust database...
gpg: marginals needed: 3  completes needed: 1  trust model: pgp
gpg: depth: 0  valid:   1  signed:   0  trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u
[lars@lars-pc ~]$ 

Trying sudo pacman -Sy gnupg archlinux-keyring manjaro-keyring again:

[lars@lars-pc ~]$ sudo pacman -Sy gnupg archlinux-keyring manjaro-keyring
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Some packages should be upgraded first...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (2) archlinux-keyring-20200820-1  manjaro-system-20200906-1

Total Installed Size:  1,29 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      0,05 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
(2/2) checking keys in keyring                     [######################] 100%
downloading required keys...
:: Import PGP key 6D42BDD116E0068F, "Christian Hesse <arch@eworm.de>"? [Y/n] Y
:: Import PGP key CAA6A59611C7F07E, "Philip Mueller <philm@manjaro.org>"? [Y/n] Y
error: key "CAA6A59611C7F07E" could not be looked up remotely
error: required key missing from keyring
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

warning: manjaro-keyring-20200603-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (3) archlinux-keyring-20200820-1  gnupg-2.2.23-1
             manjaro-keyring-20200603-1

Total Installed Size:  11,48 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       0,18 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
(3/3) checking keys in keyring                     [######################] 100%
downloading required keys...
:: Import PGP key FC1B547C8D8172C8, "Levente Polyak <anthraxx@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] Y
:: Import PGP key CAA6A59611C7F07E, "Philip Mueller <philm@manjaro.org>"? [Y/n] Y
error: key "CAA6A59611C7F07E" could not be looked up remotely
error: required key missing from keyring
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
[lars@lars-pc ~]$ 

Could this be a hardware problem?

Sounds unlikely at least to me, that this should be hardware related… Perhaps now you can try to add the missing keys with gpg --keyserver server --recv-key etc… again, now that you removed the old keys?

Anybody else have any ideas how to fix this kind of key problem?

Thank you JQV for your concern!

The keys, that could not be looked up remotely during ”sudo pacman -Syyu” was successfully imported with ”gpg --keyserver yyyyyyyyyyyt --recv-key XXXXXX”.

However, the same fault appeared on next ”sudo pacman -Syyu”:
On fetching the keys from the keyring the attempt to import the first key is unsuccessful:

: Import PGP-key CAA6A59611C7F07E, "Philip Mueller <philm@manjaro.org>"? [Y/n] Y 
ERROR: key "CAA6A59611C7F07E" could not be looked up remotely

Today I tried sudo pacman -Syyu and suddenly all functioned! Strange that it went OK now, I know I tried the same command before, but then without success.
So I want to thank you all for your help.

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