[SOLVED] [pacman] My 'pacman-key --init' issue

Question

pacman-key --init
gpg: Generating pacman keychain master key...
Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 211 more bytes)
Well, I thought that I could resolve it using random bytes from RANDOM.ORG (http://www.random.org/, in particularly http://www.random.org/bytes/), a really useful website.
Is it a good solution, or is it mandatory to generate random bytes using my PC? And in that case, how can I use random bytes generated from that site?
Last edited by metre (2011-10-14 09:48:31)

Answer 1

teratomata wrote:
hussam wrote:
I installed pacman 4.0 from testing. I did pacman-key --init
but now I can't install anything again
trying to install hplip
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking package integrity [####################################] 100%
error: hplip: key "FCF2CB179205AC90" is unknown
:: Import PGP key 9205AC90, "Eric Belanger <[email protected]>", created 2011-04-20? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking package integrity [####################################] 100%
error: hplip: signature from "Eric Belanger <[email protected]>" is unknown trust
error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature))
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
I found that my pacman.conf didn't get updated, but once I moved /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew to /etc/pacman.conf, everything worked.
I just wanted to say thanks teratomata. I did everything that was mentioned and was continually being asked if I wanted to import keys.  Moved pacman.conf.pacnew to pacman.conf and everything works great!