apt-get update problem: GPG error ... The following signatures were invalid

[Peter Lieverdink]

On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 20:47 -0400, Noah Dain wrote:
> I just tried ( 20:45 EST, gmt -5??) to update my system via 'apt-get
> update' and got this:
> 
> (@)> apt-get update
> Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security Release.gpg [189B]
> Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy Release.gpg [189B]
> Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security Release
> Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates Release.gpg [189B]
> Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security/main Packages
> Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security/restricted Packages
> Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy Release
> Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy Release
> Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates Release
> Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates Release
> Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Packages
> Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/restricted Packages
> Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates/main Packages
> Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates/restricted Packages
> Fetched 379B in 0s (379B/s)
> Reading package lists... Done
> W: GPG error: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy Release: The
> following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu
> Archive Automatic Signing Key <ftpmaster at ubuntu.com>
> W: GPG error: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates Release: The
> following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu
> Archive Automatic Signing Key <ftpmaster at ubuntu.com>
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
> 
> 
> oddly enough, running apt-get update again fails to correct the problem ;-)
> 
> /etc/apt/sources.list:
> 
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy main restricted
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy-updates main restricted
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy-security main restricted
> 
> #deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy universe multiverse
> #deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy-security universe multiverse
> 
> 
> --
> Noah Dain
> noahdain at gmail.com
> 

>From the irc channel:

ubotu: If you get GPG errors when accessing the Ubuntu archives, sudo
rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* (Yes, you will get some '... is a directory'
messages, that's fine) then wait 10 minutes and retry.

Cheers,
- P.
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