Update Manager "signatures were invalid"
Wade Smart
wade at wadesmart.com
Fri Nov 11 01:14:49 UTC 2005
11102005 1911 GMT-5
Im getting that as well:
W: GPG error: http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy Release: The following
signatures were in valid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu Archive
Automatic Signing Key <ftpmaster at ubuntu.co m>
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
wadesmart at wadesmart:~$
I tried the restore default keys but that didnt work.
Any more ideas?
Wade
'Forum Post wrote:
> Hallo Max & Duncan
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> I'm new to both Linux and Ubuntu, this is my very first posting in the
> forums! That's probably enough to warn you that the following may not
> be worth much...
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> I had the same problem with the update manager. What worked for me (at
> the time of posting this...) was to open the update manager >
> preferences > authentication > restore default keys.
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> I'm not aware of having changed or added any keys before doing this,
> but it did work for me. Either it fixed something (I think the key
> looks different - the name "string") or the relevant server was simply
> back on line when I retried... I did at some point choose to "localise"
> somewhere in some application, that may be where the za (for me), de,
> se, us, etc. jumps out from - perhaps somehow linked to this problem?
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> Anyway, that's way too much writing for my first posting.
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> Mike
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