gpg key retrieval gives bogus, confusing error message
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnupg (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I attempted to install a key using gpg as follows:
pwa@pwa-
gpg: requesting key 3F055C03 from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net
?: subkeys.pgp.net: Host not found
gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn't connect: Success
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: Total number processed: 0
I don't know why I got this error (I'm not behind a proxy server), but that's not the point of my filing this bug report. Whatever the problem is, it's not a case of "host not found". The host is there and I can link to it. The error message is clearly bogus, and very misleading. It needs to reflect what the problem really is.
I'm running Kubuntu 12.04. and gpg 1.4.11. The command cited above seems to work for most people, but it doesn't work for me.
PS - I attempted to file this report under package gpg, but got a message that gpg does not exist in ubuntu. Yet gpg shows up under the package name search in the bug reporter.
affects: | ubuntu → gnupg (Ubuntu) |
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