Bug#863179: apt: GPG errors on update and other operations
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 06:49:31PM +1000, Peter Miller wrote:
> David,
>
> Thanks for your time on this. I am surprised that the answer to this issue
> is a re-install: it's only the keys that are corrupt somehow, and I am
> surprised there is not a simple way to fix this. I have an unusual setup
> with a mirrored ZFS pool as my home directory, so I'm a little
> apprehensive. I know a re-install is usually not a big issue, but I'd
> rather not take that risk in this situation.
You are completely missing the point (any package you installed unchecked
could be MITMed was what he said), and the second half of David's email
(to look at the files in trusted.gpg.d and fix/remove the wrong ones).
You know, that bit:
> On 23 May 2017 at 21:35, David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> wrote:
> > Julian was asking basically for running both:
> > ls -l /etc/apt/trusted.gpg{,.d}
> > file /etc/apt/trusted.gpg{,.d/*}
> >
> > As he thinks it might be a permission/wrong-file-in-there problem, which
> > is the most likely cause… I would add a "stat /tmp" as I have seen it
> > a few times by now that people had very strange permissions on /tmp
> > – all of which usually caused by "fixing" some problem earlier…
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