Pacstrap fails

I managed to break my system by replacing nouveau with nvidia recently and saw no better way to fix it than a fresh install. (I know, Windows mentality, but at least it never fails right? right?)
I ran "pacstrap /mnt base base-devel"like I usually do
and got
warning: skipping target: file
warning: skipping target: findutils
warning: skipping target: gawk
warning: skipping target: gettext
warning: skipping target: grep
warning: skipping target: gzip
warning: skipping target: libutil-linux
warning: skipping target: pacman
warning: skipping target: sed
warning: skipping target: texinfo
warning: skipping target: util-linux
warning: skipping target: which
But paid no heed and just allowed pacstrap to keep running since it did list these packages as targets and also seemed to be downloading them.
It got ti checking package integrity (133/133) and then
error: dhcpcd: key "B02854ED753E0F1F" is unknown
error: key "B02854ED753E0F1F" could not be looked up remotely
error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
==> ERROR: Failed to install packages to new root
What do I do?
Edit: Solved it by
pacman-key --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu -r <key_id>
(key id in this case: B02854ED753E0F1F)
But just to be sure, are the warnings I posted at the start of this post something for me to worry about? or are they safe to ignore?
Edit 2: Not quite solved, next time i tried to use pacman to install opencl-nvidia i got
downloading required keys...
error: key "..." could not be looked up remotely
error: required key missing from keyring
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
Edit 3: I think this solved it
Last edited by rabcor (2014-05-01 06:27:34)

rat5 wrote:
Yes, this is bad and dangerus,
but as it was mentioned before, it was made during the installation and it impact only in "livecd" and as I said before after installation the problem back - > that mean the pacman.conf from the system was in orginal form and as I said before the pernamently solution for this problem is install this package
archlinux-keyring
The big problem here is that Archlinux Live CD is a READ ONLY system and it is impossible to edit "/etc/pacman.conf" - So the real question here is: "How to import keys during an installation through Live CD where CD can't be altered.".
Every time this happens (and it does happen a lot) I can only get to a point where I had to mount partitions with a file system already set up. Then at the point where I should use command pacstrap and install Arch Linux to a new root I get into a dead end. There is no solution here. I can't install packages to a new root and because of this I can't use arch-chroot to move into new root and edit pacman.conf for the new root... DEAD END.
What I tried was to install only package base, but even this package requires keys which are not supported. THIS IS JUST RIDICULOUS AND A BIG PROBLEM FOR ARCH LINUX FOR SO LONG NOW. Sometimes it works to only restart a PC and repeat installation and for some strange bizzare reason it will work and import keys...
Last edited by 71GA (2014-11-04 08:11:29)

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