EXPKEYSIG error and fix

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

For those users getting the EXPKEYSIG error.

Method 1:

3 steps, in a terminal

1. wget 'http://repo.antixlinux.com/antix-archive-keyring.asc'

2. sudo apt-key add antix-archive-keyring.asc

3. sudo apt-get update

Method 2:

1. Download antix-archive-keyring_20019.3.13_all.deb from here: http://repo.antixlinux.com

In the directory where you downloaded the deb

2. sudo dpkg -i antix-archive-keyring_20019.3.13_all.deb

3. sudo apt-get update

• This topic was modified 1 year ago by anticapitalista.
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[Member caprea]

Yes that fixes it.
It happened on every installation here so far.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

I was suspicious that the key would expire, but it was supposed to be valid until 2021

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[Member greyowl]

Method 1 worked for me.
Thank you

Dell Latitude D610 laptop (1.86 GHz, 2G RAM, 32 bit) - antiX 17

[Member andfree]

Method 1 worked for me, too. After the 3rd step, I ran a “sudo apt-get dist-upgrade” and there was a package to be upgraded: antix-archive-keyring (20019.3.13 over 20017.3.14). So, shouldn’t we add it as “step 4”? Thanks.

• This reply was modified 1 year ago by andfree.

[Member zeh]

I’ve tried the two methods with several repos but always got the 404 error

axTest@axTest:~/Downloads
$ wget 'http://repo.antixlinux.com/antix-archive-keyring.asc'
--2019-03-14 16:56:02--  http://repo.antixlinux.com/antix-archive-keyring.asc
Resolving repo.antixlinux.com (repo.antixlinux.com)... 72.143.17.194
Connecting to repo.antixlinux.com (repo.antixlinux.com)|72.143.17.194|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4053 (4.0K) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘antix-archive-keyring.asc’

antix-archive-keyring.asc               100%[=============================================================================>]   3.96K  --.-KB/s    in 0.002s  

2019-03-14 16:56:06 (2.52 MB/s) - ‘antix-archive-keyring.asc’ saved [4053/4053]

axTest@axTest:~/Downloads
$ sudo apt-key add antix-archive-keyring.asc
OK
axTest@axTest:~/Downloads
$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org testing/updates InRelease
Hit:2 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease                                     
Hit:3 http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian testing InRelease                                             
Ign:4 http://nl.mxrepo.com/antix testing InRelease                   
Err:5 http://nl.mxrepo.com/antix testing Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 81.4.106.127 80]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'http://nl.mxrepo.com/antix testing Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
axTest@axTest:~/Downloads
$ 

axTest@axTest:~/Downloads
$ sudo dpkg -i antix-archive-keyring_20019.3.13_all.deb
(Reading database ... 156016 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack antix-archive-keyring_20019.3.13_all.deb ...
Unpacking antix-archive-keyring (20019.3.13) over (20017.3.14) ...
Setting up antix-archive-keyring (20019.3.13) ...

Configuration file '/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/antix-archive-keyring.gpg'
 ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
 ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
   What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
    Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
    N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
      D     : show the differences between the versions
      Z     : start a shell to examine the situation
 The default action is to keep your current version.
*** antix-archive-keyring.gpg (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? y
Installing new version of config file /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/antix-archive-keyring.gpg ...
axTest@axTest:~/Downloads
$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org testing/updates InRelease
Hit:2 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease                                                                        
Hit:3 http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian testing InRelease                                                                                
Ign:4 http://nl.mxrepo.com/antix testing InRelease                   
Err:5 http://nl.mxrepo.com/antix testing Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 81.4.106.127 80]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'http://nl.mxrepo.com/antix testing Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
axTest@axTest:~/Downloads
$ 

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

Use repo-manager to change the antiX repo

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[Member zeh]

I’ve done that before (France, Netherlands, Greece, Portugal) and again now, to no avail

Ign:4 https://mx-linux.ethz.ch/mx-packages/antix testing InRelease
Err:5 https://mx-linux.ethz.ch/mx-packages/antix testing Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 129.132.53.171 443]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'https://mx-linux.ethz.ch/mx-packages/antix testing Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
update took 32.23 seconds
Warning: The apt-get command failed
Warning: There was a problem running apt-get update

Checking source files ...
It appears that at least one list file is missing

Ign:4 http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/antix testing InRelease   
Err:5 http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/antix testing Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 137.226.34.46 80]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/antix testing Release' does not have a Release file.

Ign:4 http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/antix testing InRelease
Err:5 http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/antix testing Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 129.21.171.72 80]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/antix testing Release' does not have a Release file.

This information «N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.» made me search and find
https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/apt/apt-secure.8.en.html

The last paragraph on Description reads:
«A repository which previously was authenticated but would loose this state in an update operation raises an error in all APT clients irrespective of the option to allow or forbid usage of insecure repositories. The error can be overcome by additionally setting Acquire::AllowDowngradeToInsecureRepositories to true or for Individual repositories with the sources.list(5) option allow-downgrade-to-insecure=yes. Note: All APT-based package management front-ends like apt-get(8), aptitude(8) and synaptic(8) support this authentication feature, so this manpage uses APT to refer to them all for simplicity only.»

I don’t have any idea though of whether this could be the solution.

[Member caprea]

Hi zeh,

zeh wrote:

E: The repository ‘https://mx-linux.ethz.ch/mx-packages/antix testing Release’ does not have a Release file.

In the above line is missing one time the word testing
Should look

https://mx-linux.ethz.ch/mx-packages/antix/testing testing
not
https://mx-linux.ethz.ch/mx-packages/antix testing

In my opinion the repo-manager doesn’t handle testing-repos quite right

Could you please edit your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list manually and add the missing testing

[Member zeh]

Hi caprea,

caprea wrote:

Could you please edit your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list manually and add the missing testing

Yes, that was the problem and this was the solution.
Thank you!

[Member rej]

Hi-

I was using the one-liner method for antiX and MX on all my devices, except one and used the 3 steps on that.

It ended up putting a file called “antix-archive-keyring” in “Home”, right after the “Videos” folder (not “hidden”).

Maybe I did it wrong?

Can this be moved to somewhere else, hidden, or deleted?

Thanks.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

Delete it as it is no longer needed (assuming the 3 steps worked)

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[Member rej]

They worked – Thanks!

[Member rayburn]

Thanks for the fix, method 1 worked for me on an infrequently used laptop.

Nether of my two other machines suffered the problem, even though all are running 17.2 version.

[Member dirkd]

I also get a similar error when trying to update the package information.

$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
Hit:2 http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:3 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease
Ign:4 http://mirror.adct.be/mx/antix/buster buster InRelease
Err:5 http://mirror.adct.be/mx/antix/buster buster Release
404 Not Found [IP: 2a0d:ef00:0:7::1 80]
Reading package lists… Done
E: The repository ‘http://mirror.adct.be/mx/antix/buster buster Release’ does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

That’s on a freshly installed 64bit Antix19.1. I tried the proposed remedies with the Antix keyring (both of them) to no avail.

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