Re: W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org stable/updates Release: Unknown error executing gpgv

Enrique Perez-Terron <enrio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 02:23:17 +0100, <ANTant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Hello! I am having a minor problem with apt-get update today:
> >
> > # apt-get update
> [...]
> > W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org stable/updates Release: Unknown error executing gpgv
> > W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release: Unknown error executing gpgv
> > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

> Any software that outputs "unknown error" should be abandoned immediately.

> Do you have a program called gpgv? Is it in your path? If so, run

Yep, according to root:

# gpgv
gpgv: keyblock resource `/root/.gnupg/trustedkeys.gpg': general error

I also reran apt-get update this morning and I no longer get the errors.
It seems like it got fixed from remotely or by itself? I ran apt-get update
twice. Should I be OK now?


> strace -o /tmp/apt.strace -f apt-get update

> (make sure you have room in /tmp, or use another directory)

> Search the resulting /tmp/apt.strace for "execv.*gpgv", and note the
> process id (leftmost number). Extract all lines with that initial number,
> and look at the last part of the resulting file. Look for "=.*E"
> to identify failed system calls.

> It is normal to issue a sequence of failed calls, when e.g. doing execve
> and trying all directories in the path. Look for more telling errors.
> If you don't find any, the error is probably an invalid gpg key.

> Look in the main strace file for the line "fork...= <pid>" or
> "clone...= <pid>" to determine the parent process of gpgv, and see if
> you can determine where it get's it's idea about the "correct" keys
> from. What key repository files does it open?

> Can you run gpgv with the same command line parameters? It is possible
> to run strace so that it shows more of the data passed in read and write
> calls. Can you run gpgv with the same input? Do you see in the strace
> any error messages gpgv sends to apt-get?

I will try this if it happens again. ;)


> YMMV

> I have never used Debian. Don't listen to me. Especially when
> I say "don't listen to me". You have been warned. Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas Enrique, and thanks. :)
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