FS#66575 - accepting PGP key with lowercase 'y' causes pacman to ask again until answer is blank
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Opened by Peter Bartyik (vanek) - Thursday, 07 May 2020, 11:54 GMT
Last edited by Andrew Gregory (andrewgregory) - Thursday, 02 July 2020, 20:05 GMT
Opened by Peter Bartyik (vanek) - Thursday, 07 May 2020, 11:54 GMT
Last edited by Andrew Gregory (andrewgregory) - Thursday, 02 July 2020, 20:05 GMT
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Summary and Info:
During full system upgrade when importing PGP key and accepting with lowercase 'y' I got prompted to accept the key again. This occasion when answering with uppercase 'Y' pacman asks again until I enter nothing and hit enter. Exact output of the issue: user@host$ sudo pacman -Syu <... omitted ...> (70/70) checking keys in keyring [------------------------------------------------------] 100% downloading required keys... :: Import PGP key 45A650E2638C536D, "kpcyrd <kpcyrd@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] y :: Import PGP key 45A650E2638C536D, "kpcyrd <kpcyrd@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] Y :: Import PGP key 45A650E2638C536D, "kpcyrd <kpcyrd@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] Y :: Import PGP key 45A650E2638C536D, "kpcyrd <kpcyrd@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] (70/70) checking package integrity [------------------------------------------------------] 100% <... omitted ...> |
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Closed by Andrew Gregory (andrewgregory)
Thursday, 02 July 2020, 20:05 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: Commit 540b19164b1ab3a4950b4a828fb90d047f4a591d
Thursday, 02 July 2020, 20:05 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: Commit 540b19164b1ab3a4950b4a828fb90d047f4a591d
IIRC this can be localized and will then accept localized responses, but that doesn't seem to be the case here!
$ pacman -Syu
<... package downloads ...>
downloading required keys...
:: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n]
:: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n]
:: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] y
:: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] Y
:: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] Yes
:: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] yes
:: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] ^C
Interrupt signal received
But in my case even just hitting enter wouldn't work. I had to interrupt pacman with ctrl-c. It seams that adding the key worked because restarting `pacman -Syu` seamed to pick up the key just fine.
I tested this on three different machines. After only passing 'n' or <ctrl-c> the next `pacman -Syu` asks again for the key, passing 'y' and then 'n' lets the next `pacman -Syu` succeed as does 'Y' and then <ctrl-c>.
/var/log/pacman.log (the first 'pacman -Syu' is the asking one):
[PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
Not a major inconvenience but an unexpected hiccup.
However, pacman was going to ask 4 times no matter what, due to a bug which was fixed in https://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=540b19164b1ab3a4950b4a828fb90d047f4a591d
As I forgot this was an issue that was fixed, I neglected to mention it. The reason it worked for me can be down to two reasons:
- the number of times you get prompted is equal to the number of packages which need the key, I only tested with one package
- I am running pacman-git, so it was already fixed for me
You can try to replicate the bug using my pacman-git package from the AUR, prebuilt + signed packages at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_user_repositories#eschwartz
It should be fixed.
IIRC agregory was planning to tag a maintenance release sometime soon, which this should hopefully be fixed in.