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

[mick]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 22:11:49 -0500
Genes Lists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
Many thanks, that did it