Keys cannot be refreshed via "gpg2 --refresh-keys"

Bug #1623159 reported by Colan Schwartz
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GnuPG2
Incomplete
Unknown
gnupg2 (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

gpg2 --refresh-keys yields the following:

gpg: keyserver refresh failed: No keyserver available

However, I have everything set up in dirmngr.conf:

keyserver hkp://jirk5u4osbsr34t5.onion
keyserver hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net
hkp-cacert /home/colan/.gnupg/sks-keyservers.netCA.pem

...and dirmngr can find it:

colan@snake[Tue 13 14:30]% dirmngr
dirmngr[26401.0]: permanently loaded certificates: 0
dirmngr[26401.0]: runtime cached certificates: 0
# Home: ~/.gnupg
# Config: /home/colan/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf
OK Dirmngr 2.1.11 at your service
keyserver
S KEYSERVER hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net
OK

Looks like gpg2 isn't grabbing the correct information from the response as here's what's happening with debugging turned on:

colan@snake[Tue 13 14:30]% gpg2 --refresh-keys --debug-all
[...]
gpg: DBG: connection to the dirmngr established
gpg: DBG: chan_6 -> GETINFO version
gpg: DBG: chan_6 <- D 2.1.11
gpg: DBG: chan_6 <- OK
gpg: DBG: chan_6 -> KEYSERVER
gpg: DBG: chan_6 <- OK
gpg: keyserver refresh failed: No keyserver available
gpg: DBG: chan_6 -> BYE

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gnupg2 2.1.11-6ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-36.55-generic 4.4.16
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Sep 13 14:31:34 2016
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
SourcePackage: gnupg2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
Colan Schwartz (colan) wrote :
Changed in gnupg2:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in gnupg2:
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnupg2 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in gnupg2 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
tags: added: yakkety
Revision history for this message
Marcus Hoffmann (bubuiic) wrote :

This now hit me on artful, gpg is pretty much unusable right now.

(I didn't mean to change the bugs settings...)

information type: Public → Public Security
information type: Public Security → Public
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Marcus Hoffmann (bubuiic) wrote :

Building and installing upstream gpg (v2.2.2) fixes the problem

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