10.10 Authentication Issues when attempting installs
Hello!
When I refreshed my synaptic package manager I got this error message:
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W: GPG error:
http://archive.canonical.com maverick Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key <ftpmaster@ubuntu.com>
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error:
http://extras.ubuntu.com maverick Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 16126D3A3E5C1192 Ubuntu Extras Archive Automatic Signing Key <ftpmaster@ubuntu.com>
W: GPG error:
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key <ftpmaster@ubuntu.com>
W: GPG error:
http://packages.medibuntu.org maverick Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 2EBC26B60C5A2783 Medibuntu Packaging Team <admin@lists.medibuntu.org>
W: Failed to fetch
http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/Release
W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
And since refreshing, I have been unable to install anything from the software centre - it keeps telling me I'm attempting to download unauthorised software.
Can anyone point me in the right direction for updating my authentication keys - bear in mind that I'm not an expert in Ubuntu!
Cheers ^_^
Re: 10.10 Authentication Issues when attempting installs
I have tried running sudo apt-key update and got this message:
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gpg: key 437D05B5: "Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key <ftpmaster@ubuntu.com>" not changed
gpg: key FBB75451: "Ubuntu CD Image Automatic Signing Key <cdimage@ubuntu.com>" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 2
gpg: unchanged: 2
Re: 10.10 Authentication Issues when attempting installs
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E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
That usually means you have another process (program) running that has locked (you needed to type in your password, and there is a key Icon showing on your screen upper right hand corner usually) that has locked the administration directory, like the quoted text says. You might want to close all running programs and then start over.
Re: 10.10 Authentication Issues when attempting installs
No, I think that's a separate thing, not relevant to the GPG keys issue. Having done a hard reboot I still get the same GPG error messages. Running apt-key update doesn't update the keys for these repositories, if I removed the affected authentications from synaptic, would Ubuntu automatically look for replacements - if not, how can I manually grab authentication keys for the selected authentications?
Re: 10.10 Authentication Issues when attempting installs
Okay, I've sorted it, this is what I did to sort out the BADSIG fault from Terminal...
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$ sudo -i
# apt-get clean
# cd /var/lib/apt
# mv lists lists.old
# mkdir -p lists/partial
# apt-get clean
# apt-get update
After doing this, apt-get update ran smoothly.
Re: 10.10 Authentication Issues when attempting installs
What have you done with this? I mean, I know what the previous commands do but what does the lists directory contain?:confused:
