sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys D35164147CA69FC4 I love to read, write and explore topics on Linux, Unix and all other technology related stuff. If you run into this proablem, you need to manually add a keyserver in your Pacman GPG config file - The Arch Wiki explains how to do this. sk. * Refreshing keys from keyserver ...OpenPGP keyring refresh failed: gpg: refreshing 4 keys from hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net gpg: keyserver refresh failed: General error I am Senthil Kumar, more commonly known as SK to my friends, from India. FAILED - RETRYING: Refresh the Streisand GPG keyring with keyserver information (9 retries left). FAILED - RETRYING: Refresh the Streisand GPG keyring with keyserver information (7 retries left). If it times out, try again — there are multiple servers, and some of them seem to be having issues currently. the same issue persists if I try to import key manually: sudo gpg --recv-key Since the certificate spamming attack, there are new servers like keys.openpgp.org but these won't work in this case. Of course there are servers like pgp.mit.edu and other different university servers. In general the keyserver could fail. gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 0x38DBBDC86092693E (use the long identifier!). agm28011997 15 November 2020 00:22 #4 GitHub is home to over 50 million developers working together to host and review code, manage projects, and build software together. But I am pretty new to this but every command I found gave me the same error: gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 94558F59 gpg: requesting key 94558F59 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com gpg: keyserver timed out gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error Here a different server: SKS Keyservers: Overview of the pools you could do: gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys They all usually sync with sks-keyservers.net.Ubuntu and other distro server also do that. apt-key etc. There should be pub key that has to be imported. Stack Exchange network consists of 176 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.. Visit Stack Exchange Stack Exchange Network. FAILED - RETRYING: Refresh the Streisand GPG keyring with keyserver information (8 retries left). aren't involved in this at all. I am trying to add a public key for installing a program with CPG. The sks-keyservers.net Pool is quite big, but if you get a bad one, you can't do anything. :: Importing keys with gpg..... gpg: keyserver receive failed: Server indicated a failure ==> Error: Problem importing keys gpg: keyserver receive failed: Server indicated a failure ==> Error: Problem importing keys. Once you have the key in your keyring, gpg --verify linux … Dismiss Join GitHub today.