Subject: apt-get update fails with "gpgv unknown error" when system date is too old
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 01:42:46 +0100
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.46.4
Severity: normal
apt-get update fails with "gpgv unknown error" when system date is too
old
I tried to install etch on a system with a bad date (something like
2000-01-05 10:23) and losed a lot of time before figuring that the
aptitude (and apt-get) error was caused by that bad date.
The message below come when executing
"$ sudo aptitude -o Debug::Acquire::gpgv=true update"
Prendre : 1 http://ftp2.fr.debian.org etch Release.gpg [378B]
Atteint http://ftp2.fr.debian.org etch Release
inside VerifyGetSigners
gpgv path: /usr/bin/gpgv
Keyring path: /etc/apt/trusted.gpg
Preparing to exec: /usr/bin/gpgv /usr/bin/gpgv --status-fd 3 --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp2.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_Release.gpg /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp2.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_Release
Read: [GNUPG:] ERRSIG 010908312D230C5F 17 2 00 1167941288 40
Read: [GNUPG:] ERRSIG A70DAF536070D3A1 17 2 00 1167941288 40
gpgv exited
Err http://ftp2.fr.debian.org etch Release
Prendre : 2 http://ftp2.fr.debian.org etch Release [74,4kB]
inside VerifyGetSigners
gpgv path: /usr/bin/gpgv
Keyring path: /etc/apt/trusted.gpg
Preparing to exec: /usr/bin/gpgv /usr/bin/gpgv --status-fd 3 --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp2.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_Release.gpg /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp2.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_Release
Read: [GNUPG:] ERRSIG 010908312D230C5F 17 2 00 1167941288 40
Read: [GNUPG:] ERRSIG A70DAF536070D3A1 17 2 00 1167941288 40
gpgv exited
Ign http://ftp2.fr.debian.org etch Release
Atteint http://ftp2.fr.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Atteint http://ftp2.fr.debian.org etch/main Sources/DiffIndex
74,8ko téléchargés en 1s (50,4ko/s)
Lecture des listes de paquets...
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances...
Lecture de l'information d'état étendu...
Initialisation de l'état des paquets...
Lecture des descriptions de tâches...
Construction de la base de données des étiquettes...
W: GPG error: http://ftp2.fr.debian.org etch Release: Erreur inconnue à l'exécution de gpgv
W: Vous pouvez lancer « apt-get update » pour corriger ces problèmes.
W: Vous devriez mettre à jour la liste des paquets pour corriger ces fichiers manquants.
Not a really useful message I think.
Thanks anyway for apt which is really great.
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Authentication "";
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 CD Binary-1 20070101-09:25]/ etch contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 CD Binary-1 20070101-09:25]/ etch contrib main
deb http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ etch main
#deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-k7
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2006.11.22 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-19 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-19 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
Subject: I too wasted a lot of time becuase of this
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:22:19 -0500
I too wasted a lot of time becuase of this.
My install was successful (4.0r4), but attempting
aptitude update
aptitude upgrade
I got warnings about untrusted packages.
It took at least 2 hours to notice the system
time was bad.
Some thing, somewhere, knows that the problem
is that the creation date of the key is in the
future. It would have saved a lot of hassle if
both update and upgrade had a more informative
error message.
Thank you.
Karl <[email protected]>
Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
-- Robert A. Heinlein