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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Nicky Chorley <nick.chorley@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unable to use `package-refresh-contents`: Bad signature from GNU ELPA Signing Agent
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:40:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ef8fn7fc.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAOASM9RGWemHrtwG-QTMg0gjNh97A2N9d7RFo1O+ksnb3BZgw@mail.gmail.com> (Nicky Chorley's message of "Sat, 9 Feb 2019 08:46:13 +0000")

Nicky Chorley <nick.chorley@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm running Emacs 25.3.1 on Slackware Linux 14.2 and `M-x
> package-refresh-contents` is giving the following error:
>
> Failed to verify signature archive-contents.sig:
> Bad signature from 474F05837FBDEF9B GNU ELPA Signing Agent
> <elpasign@elpa.gnu.org>
> Command output:
> gpg: Signature made Fri 08 Feb 2019 10:15:04 PM GMT using DSA key ID 7FBDEF9B
> gpg: BAD signature from "GNU ELPA Signing Agent <elpasign@elpa.gnu.org>"
>
> I don't recall changing anything in my config recently. Just to see if
> that was causing a problem, I did remove my config (.emacs and
> .emacs.d), but the problem persisted.
>
> Any ideas about what's causing this?

My crystal ball says youʼre using http to download the archives. Try
switching to https.

If that solves it you have a broken proxy somewhere between you and
the package archive server.

Robert



  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-10 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-09  8:46 Unable to use `package-refresh-contents`: Bad signature from GNU ELPA Signing Agent Nicky Chorley
2019-02-10 12:40 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2019-02-10 15:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-09  6:52 ` Nicky Chorley
2019-03-09  7:57   ` Jude DaShiell
2019-03-09 20:15     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-09 20:34       ` Jude DaShiell
2019-06-13  7:25     ` Nicky Chorley
2019-06-13 12:23       ` Van L
2019-04-01 16:49 ` usenet qqk8
2019-04-01 22:03   ` usenet Emanuel Berg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-06-22  7:26 Unable to use `package-refresh-contents`: Bad signature from GNU ELPA Signing Agent Nicky Chorley
2019-06-22 13:04 ` VanL
2019-06-23  4:50   ` Nicky Chorley
2019-06-23 11:50     ` VanL
2019-06-23 14:19       ` Nicky Chorley
2019-06-24  8:13         ` VanL
2019-06-24 19:00           ` Nicky Chorley
2019-06-25 10:26             ` VanL
2019-06-24 12:50         ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-23 18:21       ` Jude DaShiell
2019-06-24 12:49         ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-24 18:58         ` Nicky Chorley
2019-06-24 20:38           ` Jude DaShiell
2019-06-22 16:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-25 14:45 Nicky Chorley

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