Public key errors on wine 3.1 upgrades

[John Winterton]

Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
apt:
  Installed: 0.8.16~exp5ubuntu13
  Candidate: 0.8.16~exp5ubuntu13
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.16~exp5ubuntu13 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

This is an error in the distribution system. Lately, upgrades coming from the wine group have failed to install due to a public key error. The message after a forced install is:

W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 5A9A06AEF9CB8DB0

The installation can be forced, but whoever is placing these updates in the distribution has somehow not found the right key.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: apt 0.8.16~exp5ubuntu13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Nov 16 08:37:35 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-16 (0 days ago)

[Alessandro Menti (elgaton)]

Hello, thanks for reporting.

Does opening a terminal and typing the command
gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 5A9A06AEF9CB8DB0 && gpg --armor --export 5A9A06AEF9CB8DB0 | apt-key add - && apt-get update
fix the problem?

[John Winterton (jwinterton)]

Sorry, I can't do this because I no longer am running Ubuntu.

[TheGeneral (torge)]

Yes, just tried it as user 'root' on my ubuntu oneiric and after executing the command provided by Alessandro I didn't get the error anymore and I was able to update wine.

[Alessandro Menti (elgaton)]

@TheGeneral: Thanks for testing.

Did you initially add the Wine repository just by adding the relevant lines in /etc/apt/sources.list?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for apt (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[John Winterton (jwinterton)]

Expiring this simply means nobody looked at it, and fixed it. The current version of wine 1,3.37 exhibits the same problem. This is trivial but annoying. It indicates you don't much care about the integrity of your distribution system.

[Alessandro Menti (elgaton)]

Hello John (and everyone else),
as for the bug status, I left the original "Incomplete" one as I was still waiting for further information from TheGeneral. The bug expired because he did not provide a reply.

I looked further into the matter and saw that this bug may not be specific only to the Wine repository, but to the Ubuntu 11.10 package management system as well (see bug #878656).

Could you please tell me how did you add the Wine repository to Ubuntu, if you still remember? Was it via the Software Sources program, via apt-add repository or did you add it by editing the /etc/apt/sources.list file?

[John Winterton (jwinterton)]

Quite siimply, I followed the links on www.wine.org's download page. This installs via the Software Sources app. After that, apt has a problem with the authenication key, and so does update manager..

Of some interest pershaps is that this is also present in LM11 and LM12, which uses the Ubuntu distro. repository.

[Alessandro Menti (elgaton)]

I have looked at the Wine web site. The problem is inherent to Software Sources itself and has also been reported by others (see bug #878656), so I'm marking this bug as a duplicate of that one.