"keyserver receive failed: Try again later" on macOS

[Andrew Gallagher]

On 18 Jun 2025, at 16:15, Walt Mankowski <waltman at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> $ gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 77D4D81DC47D68FA9E9E6A7C5DF19E2B67A7B584
> gpg: keyserver receive failed: Try again later
> $ gpg --keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 77D4D81DC47D68FA9E9E6A7C5DF19E2B67A7B584
> gpg: keyserver receive failed: Try again later
> $ gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 77D4D81DC47D68FA9E9E6A7C5DF19E2B67A7B584
> gpg: key 5DF19E2B67A7B584: 1 duplicate signature removed
> gpg: key 5DF19E2B67A7B584: "Walter C. Mankowski <waltman at pobox.com <mailto:waltman at pobox.com>>" not changed
> gpg: Total number processed: 1
> gpg:              unchanged: 1
> $ gpg --keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 77D4D81DC47D68FA9E9E6A7C5DF19E2B67A7B584
> gpg: keyserver receive failed: No keyserver available
> $ gpg --keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371 --recv-keys 77D4D81DC47D68FA9E9E6A7C5DF19E2B67A7B584
> gpg: keyserver receive failed: No keyserver available

Curiouser and curiouser. :-(

I’ve tested this on my 15.5 Mac with homebrew, but can’t reproduce. I do also have GPGtools installed, which makes it difficult to replicate your environment - but I made sure to kill dirmngr and allow the homebrew gpg to start its own, and I haven’t seen any issues with keyserver connectivity.

Could you try renaming your .gnupg directory temporarily and checking if the issue persists with a fresh config?

A

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