Arch Linux

I cannot reproduce this. Is your system time set correctly?

It is automatically set to my main PC's time, which according to time.org itself is completely exact.

However, what may help is that I am using a Cruzer Glide, as the Cruzer Spark I was using began developing drive errors and it is no longer being sold at my nearby retailers.

Please post the output of the following command:

pacman-key --verify /var/cache/pacman/pkg/archlinux-keyring-20220713-1-any.pkg.tar.zst.sig

```
==> Checking /var/cache/pacman/pkg/archlinux-keyring-20220713-1-any.pkg.tar.zst.sig... (embedded)
grep: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/archlinux-keyring-20220713-1-any.pkg.tar.zst.sig: No such file or directory
gpg: can't open '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/archlinux-keyring-20220713-1-any.pkg.tar.zst.sig': No such file or directory
gpg: verify signatures failed: No such file or directory
==> ERROR: The signature identified by /var/cache/pacman/pkg/archlinux-keyring-20220713-1-any.pkg.tar.zst.sig could not be verified.
1 root@archiso ~ # pacman-key --verify /var/cache/pacman/pkg/arch [<-- pressed tab here]
No matches for: `file'
```

Even searching for just "arch", nothing pops up...

Did you try updating archlinux-keyring this time around (either by running "archinstall" or by using "pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring")? The screenshots you posted clearly show that the problem is with /var/cache/pacman/pkg/archlinux-keyring-20220713-1-any.pkg.tar.zst, so at least that file must be there (otherwise the error message would be different).

It could be that it's not meant to be in the ISO and something got it as a dependency

That does not answer my question... /var/cache/pacman/pkg/archlinux-keyring-20220713-1-any.pkg.tar.zst gets downloaded when you run something like "archinstall" or "pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring", it is not part of the ISO from the beginning. Your error message shows that the downloaded file cannot be validated, hence me asking you to download it first using on of these commands, then running "pacman-key --verify" to check what is wrong with it.

"error: keyring is not writable"
"error: required key missing from keyring"

It can't write to the ISO.

"You do not have sufficient permissions to read the pacman keyring"
Hmm, okay...

That is not an error message that pacman-key is able to produce. You *need* to post which commands you are running and their *full* output, not just some random snippets.

Entire thing, posted as an attachment

Here it is- apparently it was too big

aA

If you initialise the keyring manually, you also need to run "pacman-key --populate archlinux" before running "pacman-key --verify ...", otherwise the necessary keys will not be available. Doing this manually should not be necessary in the first place, so I suspect either your virtual machine has not enough memory to be able to install the keyring to RAM, or you already did something weird to the keyring directory before.

it has 4gb allocated, so it shouldn't be too much of an issue right?

I can't do anything to the keyring directory on the iso, so idk

Clearly you can, otherwise "pacman-key --init" would have failed. Anyway, this is not an issue with the archlinux-keyring package, and I am pretty sure it is not an issue with archiso either. Please use the support channels if you need further assistance.