Error: failed to synchronize all databases (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))

[rynite]

I was updating with

sudo pacman -Syyu

But I get the following:

error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
:: Synchronizing package databases...
endeavouros                   32.4 KiB  50.9 KiB/s 00:01 [------------------------------] 100%
core                           8.5 KiB  6.67 KiB/s 00:01 [------------------------------] 100%
extra                          8.5 KiB  6.65 KiB/s 00:01 [------------------------------] 100%
community                      8.5 KiB  5.76 KiB/s 00:01 [------------------------------] 100%
multilib                       8.5 KiB  6.65 KiB/s 00:01 [------------------------------] 100%
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: failed to synchronize all databases (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))

I tried this as per https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … r:_No_data

rm -r /var/lib/pacman/sync/

But yet nothing works sad

Installing packages doesn’t work either

sudo pacman -S archlinux-keyring

error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: database ‘core’ is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: database ‘extra’ is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: database ‘community’ is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: database ‘multilib’ is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))

[HMS_Endeavour]

Welcome @rynite to the good ship
What happens if you just try yay ?

[rynite]

Thanks,

here’s the output

error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
:: Synchronizing package databases…
endeavouros is up to date
core 8.5 KiB 13.0 KiB/s 00:01 [------------------------------] 100%
extra 8.5 KiB 12.9 KiB/s 00:01 [------------------------------] 100%
community 8.5 KiB 12.9 KiB/s 00:01 [------------------------------] 100%
multilib 8.5 KiB 12.6 KiB/s 00:01 [------------------------------] 100%
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: failed to synchronize all databases (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
→ error installing repo packages

[pebcak]

Try the steps in the post below. It resolved a similar issue with:

@rynite

error: GPGME error: No data

for the OP in that thread.

Update problem (GPME error: No data)

Welcome to the forum. I corrected under " signs, now your tip should work. sudo cp -f "/etc/pacman.conf" "/etc/pacman.conf.orig" sudo sed -i 's/SigLevel.*/SigLevel = Never/' /etc/pacman.conf sudo pacman -Syy gnupg archlinux-keyring endeavouros-keyring sudo mv -f "/etc/pacman.conf.orig" "/etc/pacman.conf" sudo pacman -Syu

[rynite]

I already tried that before, it doesn’t work I still get the same errors

[pebcak]

Did you try refreshing your mirrorlist?
You could do that from the Welcome app or using reflector command line:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Reflector

After generating a new mirrorlist, try again:

sudo pacman -Syyu

[rynite]

I tried both of these

unfortunately… same results…

[anon11595408]

Potentially solved by this post on Arch Linux BBS?

First make sure the first mirror in [sudo nano /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist] is whitelisted

Then:

sudo rm -R /var/lib/pacman/sync

If you use e2guardian, make sure ‘blanket block for SSL’ is not enabled in [examplef1.story].
Then

sudo -E pacman -Syu

If no solution for you, see this:
https://wiki.parabola.nu/Pacman_troubleshooting#.22GPGME_error:_No_data.22_Error

[rynite]

I refreshed my mirrors once again and removed the sync folder then tried pacman -Syyu. and now it works perfectly fine, thank you