15th June 2018, 1 min read

Balking ARM ArchLinux Update

Had an issue with update of ARM ArchLinux which I use here. Error messages like:

(95/95) checking keys in keyring                                                          [####################################################] 100%
(95/95) checking package integrity                                                        [####################################################] 100%
error: readline: signature from "Arch Linux ARM Build System " is unknown trust
:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/readline-7.0.005-1-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).
Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] n
error: bash: signature from "Arch Linux ARM Build System " is unknown trust
:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/bash-4.4.023-1-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).
Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] ^C

Found forum post: many corrupted packages/invalid PGP signatures for aarch64? Suggestion there:

pacman-key --init
pacman-key --populate archlinuxarm

This helped, so could proceed with pacman -Syu.

Also try

pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring

if above is not sufficient.

On x86 you would issue

pacman-key --populate archlinux