HyperForum — Stuck at "Generating pacman keyring master key"

Re: Stuck at "Generating pacman keyring master key"

null@example.com (rachad) — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 19:11:03 +0000

why i never got this issue and i dont type anything it just works and generate the keys

Re: Stuck at "Generating pacman keyring master key"

null@example.com (Matej) — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:57:44 +0000

Solved by typing random characters. Thank you.

Re: Stuck at "Generating pacman keyring master key"

null@example.com (outtasight) — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 08:01:20 +0000

To be uncharacteristically terse, my first guess would be an entropy issue, as per (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … ge_signing):

Initializing the keyring requires entropy. To generate entropy, move your mouse around, press random characters on the keyboard, or run some disk-based activity (for example in another console running ls -R / or find / -name foo or dd if=/dev/sda8 of=/dev/tty7). If your system does not already have sufficient entropy, this step may take hours; if you actively generate entropy, it will complete much more quickly.
The randomness created is used to initialize the keyring (/etc/pacman.d/gnupg) and the GPG signing key of your system. ]

Re: Stuck at "Generating pacman keyring master key"

null@example.com (outtasight) — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 08:01:05 +0000

To be uncharacteristically terse, my first guess would be an entropy issue, as per (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … ge_signing):

Initializing the keyring requires entropy. To generate entropy, move your mouse around, press random characters on the keyboard, or run some disk-based activity (for example in another console running ls -R / or find / -name foo or dd if=/dev/sda8 of=/dev/tty7). If your system does not already have sufficient entropy, this step may take hours; if you actively generate entropy, it will complete much more quickly.
The randomness created is used to initialize the keyring (/etc/pacman.d/gnupg) and the GPG signing key of your system. ]

Stuck at "Generating pacman keyring master key"

null@example.com (Matej) — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:06:11 +0000

I get

Generating pacman keyring master key

after running

pacman-key --init