I have currently the same problem and have as the keyserver in the '/etc/pacman.d/gnupg/gpg.conf' file the 'hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net'. This address can be pinged OK. Why it has ceased to work? Albert. On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 02:43:54PM +0100, Viktor Garske wrote:

[SOLUTION]

Okay, after I changed the keyserver line in /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/gpg.conf to hkp://pgp.mit.edu:11371 the refresh and upgrade worked.

Am 13.02.2015 um 14:35 schrieb Viktor Garske:

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Hello,

I've got a problem with pacman: when I try to upgrade the system pacman writes "key "A6234074498E9CEE" could not be looked up remotely".

Then I looked into this forum thread (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1501915#p1501915). I tried the workaround but "pacman-key --refresh-keys" returned (after a long time):

gpg: Refresh vom Schlüsselserver fehlgeschlagen: Dateiende ==> FEHLER: Ein spezifizierter lokaler Schlüssel konnte nicht vom Schlüssel-Server aktualisiert werden.

(it means:)

gpg: refresh failed from the key server: end of file ==> ERROR: a specified local key could not be refreshed by the key server.

Do you have any solutions?

-- Viktor

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Ah, thanks for the information but I already found a solution. Otherwise it's good to know. Am 13.02.2015 um 14:59 schrieb Ralf Mardorf:

On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:35:11 +0100, Viktor Garske wrote:

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pacman-key --refresh-keys

gpg: Refresh vom Schlüsselserver fehlgeschlagen: Dateiende ==> FEHLER: Ein spezifizierter lokaler Schlüssel konnte nicht vom Schlüssel-Server aktualisiert werden.

(it means:)

gpg: refresh failed from the key server: end of file ==> ERROR: a specified local key could not be refreshed by the key server. LANG=C command LC_ALL=C command

should return English output, IOW

LANG=C pacman-key --refresh-keys LC_ALL=C pacman-key --refresh-keys