gpg: keyserver receive failed

Question

Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.ZXoflQHlR5/gpg.1.sh -qq --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys ED444FF07D8D0BF6
gpg: keyserver receive failed: No name
Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.wELogVwz5k/gpg.1.sh -qq --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys ED444FF07D8D0BF6
gpg: keyserver receive failed: No name
This may be a server issue. Please try again later

This is what I get when trying to install katoolin3 on Ubuntu 20.04:

$ sudo ./install.sh
[sudo] password for silentstorm:
Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.LsQdt19RYD/gpg.1.sh -qq --keyserver pool.sks.keyservers.net --recv-keys ED444FF07D8D0BF6
gpg: keyserver receive failed: Server indicated a failure
Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.3JzK82pkYP/gpg.1.sh -qq --keyserver hkp.pool.sks.keyservers.net --recv-keys ED444FF07D8D0BF6
gpg: keyserver receive failed: No name
This may be a server issue. Please try again later

Solution

--keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net

SKS keyservers are deprecated and most of them are going offline. As such you will not be able to retrieve keys from them.

Instead you should use --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com.

No name This may be a server issue.

There is a notice dated 2021-06-21 on sks-keyservers.net stating "Due to even more GDPR takedown requests, the DNS records for the pool will no longer be provided at all."

Comments

[N0rbert]

gpg key for what? Which package? What is your Ubuntu version?

[Will]

You need to ask a question first! Give us some context - hardware, Ubuntu version, how you ended up with that error message.

[justus george]

still not working

[fuzzydrawrings]

@justusgeorge it won't work because the install.sh script you're using was written to use the sks keyserver pool which no longer works.