[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu keyserver problems

[David Robert Lewis]

Morgan Collett wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 20:46, David Robert Lewis
> <ethnopunk at telkomsa.net> wrote:
>   
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'm having a bit of trouble getting hold of the following key. is there
>> something I'm not doing? Is it a bandwidth issue, no local mirror for
>> ubuntu key server?
>> thanks
>> -D
>>
>> afrodeity at afrodeity-desktop:~$ sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver
>> keyserver.ubuntu.com gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv
>> 0C713DA6 && gpg --export -a 0C713DA6 | sudo apt-key add
>> [sudo] password for afrodeity:
>> Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring
>> --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name
>> /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --recv-keys
>> --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com
>> --recv 0C713DA6
>> gpg: "gpg" not a key ID: skipping
>> gpg: "--keyserver" not a key ID: skipping
>> gpg: "keyserver.ubuntu.com" not a key ID: skipping
>> gpg: "--recv" not a key ID: skipping
>> gpg: requesting key 0C713DA6 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
>> gpg: keyserver timed out
>> gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error
>> afrodeity at afrodeity-desktop:~$
>>     
>
> I think you have pasted more than one command into the command line,
> although there might still be a timeout occurring.
>
> See https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA#Adding%20the%20keys%20in%20the%20terminal
> - I think your command should have been just:
>
> sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0C713DA6
>
> Note that the above will only work in jaunty - hardy and intrepid do
> not have "apt-key adv" support so you must download the key into a
> file and then pipe it into apt-key - which I think was the second part
> of your command:
>
> gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 0C713DA6 && gpg --export
> -a 0C713DA6 | sudo apt-key add
>
> Hope that helps.
> Morgan
>
>   
okay, I get it. Is there a hack to get this kind of support in Hardy? My 
ISP seems to be blocking the keyserver so am having trouble getting the 
key file.

Thanks, D

PS: I can't seem to find the ubuntu sugar mailing list on the site you 
gave me, maybe its my eyes or something but the navigation and lay-out 
sucks. sorry.