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

[Noah Dain]

On 10/17/05, Peter Lieverdink <ubuntu at cafuego.net> wrote:
> 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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> 0x969F3F57   9662 1CB5 8E54 450D 2E12 9D7E 580E 2519 969F 3F57
> cachaca   11:05:52 up 21:48  2 users  load: 0.45 0.40 0.38
> Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)   Linux 2.6.12-9-amd64-k8 x86_64
>
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that did the trick. thx!

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Noah Dain
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