Starting yesterday I have this error when I run ‘sudo pacman -Syu’.

Where have I gone wrong?

[email protected] ~> sudo pacman -Syu
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 antergos is up to date
 core                                                          3.7 KiB  0.00B/s 00:00 [##################################################] 100%
 core.sig                                                      3.7 KiB  0.00B/s 00:00 [##################################################] 100%
error: GPGME error: No data
error: failed to update core (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
 extra                                                         3.7 KiB  0.00B/s 00:00 [##################################################] 100%
 extra.sig                                                     3.7 KiB  0.00B/s 00:00 [##################################################] 100%
error: GPGME error: No data
error: failed to update extra (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
 community                                                     3.7 KiB  0.00B/s 00:00 [##################################################] 100%
 community.sig                                                 3.7 KiB  0.00B/s 00:00 [##################################################] 100%
error: GPGME error: No data
error: failed to update community (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
 multilib                                                      3.7 KiB  0.00B/s 00:00 [##################################################] 100%
 multilib.sig                                                  3.7 KiB  0.00B/s 00:00 [##################################################] 100%
error: GPGME error: No data
error: failed to update multilib (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: database 'core' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: database 'extra' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: database 'community' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: database 'multilib' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))

I have exactly the same problem, any ideas how to fix this…

$ sudo pacman-key --init
$ sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux
$ sudo pacman-key --refresh-keys

sorry

$ sudo pacman-key --init
$ sudo pacman-key --populate antergos archlinux
$ sudo pacman-key --refresh-keys

I have the same problem, tried those commands but it isn’t solved yet.

archlinux mirror problem? may ranking them helps:

yaourt -S fetchmirrors
sudo fetchmirrors -q -s 16 -c DE

DE needs to be changed to your countries letters

sudo rankmirrors -n 0 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist > /tmp/mirrorlist && sudo cp /tmp/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d

@joekamprad sadly didn’t work.
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: la base de datos «core» no es válida (base de datos no válida o dañada (firma PGP))
error: la base de datos «extra» no es válida (base de datos no válida o dañada (firma PGP))
error: la base de datos «community» no es válida (base de datos no válida o dañada (firma PGP))
error: la base de datos «multilib» no es válida (base de datos no válida o dañada (firma PGP))
cargando los paquetes…
error: no se pudo preparar la operación (base de datos no válida o dañada)
==> AVISO: Sus paquetes se han guardado en /tmp/yaourt-tmp-jacqueline

@jacdecoster said in GPGME error: no data:

error: GPGME error: No data

sudo pacman -Syy

If still not work then:

sudo rm -R /etc/pacman.d/gnupg
sudo pacman-key --init
sudo pacman-key --populate antergos archlinux
sudo pacman-key --refresh-keys
sudo pacman -Syyu

Still the same error

then disable sig check temporary:

sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf

By default, pacman accepts packages signed by keys that its local keyring

trusts (see pacman-key and its man page), as well as unsigned packages.

SigLevel = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
#RemoteFileSigLevel = Required

search for the line starting with SigLevel (the one i mark bold inside text before here)

and change it :

# By default, pacman accepts packages signed by keys that its local keyring
# trusts (see pacman-key and its man page), as well as unsigned packages.
#SigLevel    = Required DatabaseOptional
SigLevel = Never
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
#RemoteFileSigLevel = Required

save with [Ctrl+X]

sudo pacman -Syyu

new mistakes
error: no se pudo abrir el archivo /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: no se pudo abrir el archivo /var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: no se pudo abrir el archivo /var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db: Unrecognized archive format
…el sistema ya está actualizado.

@jacdecoster said in GPGME error: no data:

Unrecognized archive format

this is surely caused by mirrors not in sync or also possible restriction/banning from your ISP or other mechanism.

//404// ERROR

ok, thank you. I’ll try again tomorrow

@joekamprad said in GPGME error: no data:

sudo pacman -Syyu

will be a good choice then… you will need to ghet working db files back …

https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/

For what it’s worth, I have the same problems as @jacdecoster, and we’re at the same point it seems: waiting for the mirrors to sync.

I’m not using my antergos laptop as my main dev machine, but it is my work laptop and it worries me that I got things out of whack with the system update utility.

Was the primary cause, perhaps, the out-of-sync mirrors? Did I corrupt the db somehow on my own?

@bdunbar hi is de list of mirrors the problem
https://forum.antergos.com/topic/2859/solved-invalid-or-corrupted-database-pgp-signature/12
in this post you fin de the solution search the mirrors with reflector and pastes the output in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.

Thanks, @mario-rengifo ! And I learned a few things from that post, too.

> sudo reflector --verbose --latest 5 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
...
> sudo pacman -Syyu

And stuff works. Appreciate it.

Thge cauise can be different,. but mostly out of sync mirror or not clean updated db files on your side… and of caus also real corrupted signature ( ;) ) by accident …

So as we get on past issues to this, different setups seems to need different steps to solve this…

To update the mirrorlists for Arch and Antergos Repos from time to time is a very good to do also, as special on Archside there are a lot of mirrors, and a sorted list will prevent you from issues like this a lot…
@manuel have programmed a tool to update antergos mirrors in a smart way, but rankmirrors will work for both repositories.

sudo rankmirrors -n 0 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist > /tmp/mirrorlist && sudo cp /tmp/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d
sudo rankmirrors -n 0 /etc/pacman.d/antergos-mirrorlist > /tmp/antergos-mirrorlist && sudo cp /tmp/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d

We have also a WIKI ;)

https://antergos.com/wiki/uncategorized/update-error-involving-keyrings/