<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body><div>Good idea! I renamed my .gnupg directory, killed dirmngr, and then tried to receive a key:</div><div><br></div><div>% gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 7FE79B445728C8EA0042839E45BCE75B840B1F69</div><div>gpg: directory '/Users/waltman/.gnupg' created</div><div><br></div><div>It hung for several minutes and then I killed it. I've got a pretty large key, so I tried a few others and had the same result.</div><div><br></div><div>The .gnupg directory it creates is very barebones:</div><div><br></div><div>% find .gnupg</div><div>.gnupg</div><div>.gnupg/S.dirmngr</div><div>.gnupg/common.conf</div><div>.gnupg/crls.d</div><div>.gnupg/crls.d/DIR.txt</div><div><br></div><div>% cat .gnupg/common.conf</div><div>use-keyboxd</div><div><br></div><div>% cat .gnupg/crls.d/DIR.txt</div><div>v:1:</div><div><br></div><div>I'm pretty sure this was working on my old Mac. I won't have a chance to test that until tonight and see if anything's different there. I set this new one up from scratch since it's my first non-Intel Mac, so it's quite possible there are differences.</div><div><br></div><div>Walt</div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, Jun 18, 2025, at 11:44 AM, Andrew Gallagher wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style="overflow-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space;"><div>On 18 Jun 2025, at 16:15, Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com> wrote:</div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div><div><div><div>$ gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 77D4D81DC47D68FA9E9E6A7C5DF19E2B67A7B584</div><div>gpg: keyserver receive failed: Try again later</div><div>$ gpg --keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 77D4D81DC47D68FA9E9E6A7C5DF19E2B67A7B584</div><div>gpg: keyserver receive failed: Try again later</div><div>$ gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 77D4D81DC47D68FA9E9E6A7C5DF19E2B67A7B584</div><div>gpg: key 5DF19E2B67A7B584: 1 duplicate signature removed</div><div>gpg: key 5DF19E2B67A7B584: "Walter C. Mankowski <<a href="mailto:waltman@pobox.com">waltman@pobox.com</a>>" not changed</div><div>gpg: Total number processed: 1</div><div>gpg: unchanged: 1</div><div>$ gpg --keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 77D4D81DC47D68FA9E9E6A7C5DF19E2B67A7B584</div><div>gpg: keyserver receive failed: No keyserver available</div><div>$ gpg --keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371 --recv-keys 77D4D81DC47D68FA9E9E6A7C5DF19E2B67A7B584</div><div>gpg: keyserver receive failed: No keyserver available</div></div></div></blockquote></div><div>Curiouser and curiouser. :-(</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Could you try renaming your .gnupg directory temporarily and checking if the issue persists with a fresh config?</div><div><br></div><div>A</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Attachments:</b></div><ul><li>signature.asc</li></ul></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>