[arch-general] error: key "A6234074498E9CEE" could not be looked up remotely

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On 02/11/2015 10:06 PM, mick wrote:
> The last few days when I try to update (pacman -Syyu) I get the following:-
..
> error: key "A6234074498E9CEE" could not be looked up remotely
> error: required key missing from keyring
> error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
> Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
>
> how do I fix it??
>

Try changing keyserver line in /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/gpg.conf
   to

hkp://pgp.mit.edu:11371

  rerun pacman -Syu
  and accept the import the new key.

Let us know if that gets around the problem.

You can change it back or not after this - experts can opine more.

Gene