Recipe from 'emacs -Q': [M-x package-list-packages RET]. Symptoms: The package list is displayed but an *Error* buffer pops up: Failed to verify signature archive-contents.sig: Bad signature from 474F05837FBDEF9B GNU ELPA Signing Agent (2014) < elpasign@elpa.gnu.org> Command output: gpg: Signature made 05/14/19 22:10:03 GMT Summer Time gpg: using DSA key CA442C00F91774F17F59D9B0474F05837FBDEF9B gpg: BAD signature from "GNU ELPA Signing Agent (2014) < elpasign@elpa.gnu.org>" [unknown] GPG version: gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.11 libgcrypt 1.8.4 Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later < https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Home: C:/Users/buster/AppData/Roaming/gnupg Supported algorithms: Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA, EDDSA Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH, CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256 Hash: SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224 Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2 In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 7, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2019-05-12 built on MACHINE Repository revision: 9e1bb6a2f6c2462b9652ffce706c549269740307 Repository branch: buster Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.18890 System Description: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (v10.0.1903.18890.1000) Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Importing package-keyring.gpg...done Package refresh done error in process filter: package--check-signature-content: Failed to verify signature: "archive-contents.sig" error in process filter: Failed to verify signature: "archive-contents.sig" Configured using: 'configure --config-cache --with-modules --without-pop --without-dbus --without-gconf --without-gsettings CFLAGS=-O3' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND NOTIFY W32NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS MODULES THREADS JSON PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP Important settings: value of $EMACSLOADPATH: c:\emacs-lisp; value of $LANG: ENG locale-coding-system: cp1252 Major mode: Package Menu Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug sendmail help-mode mm-archive message dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec epa derived gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs text-property-search time-date mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-utils gnutls network-stream url-http mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 mm-util ietf-drums mail-prsvr url-gw nsm rmc puny url-cache url-auth url url-proxy url-privacy url-expand url-methods url-history url-cookie url-domsuf url-util mailcap epg finder-inf package easymenu epg-config url-handlers url-parse auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core cl-macs eieio-loaddefs password-cache json subr-x map url-vars seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl-loaddefs cl-lib elec-pair mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp disp-table term/w32-win w32-win w32-vars term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads w32notify w32 lcms2 multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 76305 10007) (symbols 48 8292 1) (strings 32 24152 2632) (string-bytes 1 719178) (vectors 16 12539) (vector-slots 8 154153 12968) (floats 8 25 327) (intervals 56 2362 126) (buffers 992 13))