[Solved] Pacman -Su stuck at downloading required keys

With updating my system (with pacman -Syu), pacman seems stuck with the last operation "Checking keys in the keyring". What I see is:
(167/167) checking keys in keyring [####################################] 100%
downloading required keys...
After 20 minutes or so I killed the process and initialized the keyring from scratch, following the instructions on the wiki, hoping this would give some clues. Unfortunately, this problem still persists.
Any suggestions on what may be the problem, or how to fix it?
Last edited by Floris (2015-02-12 14:04:31)

Thanks for that hint. The debug showed that it was fetching a key remotely, and then nothing. With that, I was able to find this similar thread on this forum. I followed the suggested procedure:
mauritiusdadd wrote:# rm -R /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
# rm -R /root/.gnupg/ # only if the directory exists
# gpg --refresh-keys
# pacman-key --init && pacman-key --populate
# pacman-key --refresh-keys
and it solved the stall. I think that the second instruction really helped, because I did rebuild the keychain multiple times today. Apparently something was cached in the .gnupg folder that might have interfered.
Thanks!
Last edited by Floris (2015-02-12 16:54:23)

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