Hi all, With GnuPG 2.1, they have tightened up on keys without a passphrase. We don't have a passphrase on the root key in the pacman keyring... This means that things like adding keys (pacman-key --recv-key <keyid>) now fail. The pacman-4.1.2-7 has a patch to pacman-key that adds an option when creating the initial key that allows passphraseless keys to work. The only solution I can see to this problem is having everyone regenerate their pacman root key. Instructions: make sure you have pacman >= 4.1.2-7 installed rm -r /etc/pacman.d/gnupg pacman-key --init pacman-key --populate archlinux readd any other keys you need Of course, the original key generation will take a very, very, very long time. So we will also have to encourage users to install haveged and run it. Or can a gnupg expert point out another way to deal with this change? Allan