Rinias
08-24-2005, 02:02 PM
So i've got debian pure64 running on my laptop, and up until recently it has been wonderful!!! (Except all those programs that just don't work in 64-bit for the moment... :( )
I was fooling around with synaptic and I must've installed something (or removed something) that messed up my "Keyring" because I get an error when starting Synaptic that says that the default keyring is trying to be accessed but cannot because it is locked. Here I need to give a password, but I have no idea what it could be (it's no password i've ever used in my life). Without this mysterious default keyring, I cannot use synaptic OR apt-get. the apt-get error is different though...
For apt-get update it downloads the files nicely but when it gets to reading package contents, it tells me that the public keys are missing for the sites. Then it tells me that I should probably try apt-get update to fix the problem that apt-get update made for me... Now, I don't remember turning anything on that would ask for keys. I know I fooled around with seahorse, but it didn't seem to do anything consequential. Google has not been very helpful in this matter and neither have these forums. I'm afraid i have no idea what is going on...
i tried to remove all gpg pgp gnupg etc packages but that didn't work and reinstalling them didn't either (which obviously would not, because I'm sure that the "preferences" are in my /home ). I really have no idea what to do...
Any ideas on this one? And no, reformatting and reinstalling is not an option ;) :D
I was fooling around with synaptic and I must've installed something (or removed something) that messed up my "Keyring" because I get an error when starting Synaptic that says that the default keyring is trying to be accessed but cannot because it is locked. Here I need to give a password, but I have no idea what it could be (it's no password i've ever used in my life). Without this mysterious default keyring, I cannot use synaptic OR apt-get. the apt-get error is different though...
For apt-get update it downloads the files nicely but when it gets to reading package contents, it tells me that the public keys are missing for the sites. Then it tells me that I should probably try apt-get update to fix the problem that apt-get update made for me... Now, I don't remember turning anything on that would ask for keys. I know I fooled around with seahorse, but it didn't seem to do anything consequential. Google has not been very helpful in this matter and neither have these forums. I'm afraid i have no idea what is going on...
i tried to remove all gpg pgp gnupg etc packages but that didn't work and reinstalling them didn't either (which obviously would not, because I'm sure that the "preferences" are in my /home ). I really have no idea what to do...
Any ideas on this one? And no, reformatting and reinstalling is not an option ;) :D