Re: Unable to use `package-refresh-contents`: Bad signature from GNU ELPA Signing Agent

[Nicky Chorley]

Well, I upgraded GnuTLS to 3.6.7 (the latest in Slackware's repos),
but nothing changed. I also tried building the latest version of Emacs
(26.2) just to see if it made a difference, but it didn't.

I also realised that my version of GnuPG 2 is quite old, but don't
know what else is using that. So, I just tried
package-refresh-contents on Emacs 26.2 on a Fedora 30 install (albeit
inside a Docker container), which has a much newer version of GnuPG 2
(2.2.13). The same problem occurred.

This is extremely frustrating!

On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 at 07:57, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> wrote:
>
> I had problems with that earlier too.
> It was because I didn't have the latest tls package installed.
> This didn't used to be necessary but now appears necessary.
>
> On Sat, 9 Mar 2019, Nicky Chorley wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 01:52:18
> > From: Nicky Chorley <nick.chorley@gmail.com>
> > To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > Subject: Re: Unable to use `package-refresh-contents`: Bad signature from 
> > GNU
> >     ELPA Signing Agent
> >
> > I tried switching to HTTPS for the GNU ELPA repository as well, but
> > that didn't help either and I'm still getting the error. Again, just
> > clearing my .emacs.d doesn't help. Is there another cache somewhere
> > that I should try clearing, or does anyone have any other suggestions?
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Nicky
> >
> > On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 at 08:46, Nicky Chorley <nick.chorley@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm running Emacs 25.3.1 on Slackware Linux 14.2 and `M-x
> > > package-refresh-contents` is giving the following error:
> > >
> > > Failed to verify signature archive-contents.sig:
> > > Bad signature from 474F05837FBDEF9B GNU ELPA Signing Agent
> > > <elpasign@elpa.gnu.org>
> > > Command output:
> > > gpg: Signature made Fri 08 Feb 2019 10:15:04 PM GMT using DSA key ID 
> > > 7FBDEF9B
> > > gpg: BAD signature from "GNU ELPA Signing Agent <elpasign@elpa.gnu.org>"
> > >
> > > I don't recall changing anything in my config recently. Just to see if
> > > that was causing a problem, I did remove my config (.emacs and
> > > .emacs.d), but the problem persisted.
> > >
> > > Any ideas about what's causing this?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Nicky Chorley
> >
> >
>
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