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<p>Greetings and respects to Parabola Community,</p>
<p>Hello, I am Ade from Indonesia. I tried to install Parabola LXDE
in a virtual machine but failed after multiple attempts for a week
with the same error messages. I explain below.<br>
</p>
<p>- My specification: a QEMU virtual machine with 64-bit CPU and
2GB memory and has been tested successful installing Guix GNOME
Desktop.</p>
<p>- My ISO image: parabola-openrc-lxde-2021.08.11-dual.iso<br>
</p>
<p>- Expected behavior: installation process works normally<br>
</p>
<p>- Actual behavior: installation process took an unusually long
time by the key retrieval errors without continuing to the next
step<br>
</p>
<p>- Chronology when using the original script:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>1. I ran the virtual machine with Parabola LXDE iso and
networking enabled. <br>
</p>
<p>2. I landed on the LXDE desktop. <br>
</p>
<p>3. I changed the DNS into ones I tested to be working in its
/etc/resolv.conf. <br>
</p>
<p>4. I ran the Parabola Installer on the wallpaper, or, I ran the
install.sh directly.</p>
<p>5. I saw the initial configuration like pacman -Syy process and
it worked normally.</p>
<p>6. I saw the keys retrieval process and many keys threw
identical errors in a very long time.</p>
<p>7. Step number 6 took about one to two hours and it seemed to
be never ending then I terminated it.</p>
8. I repeat the process since the Step number 1 multiple times
without a success for one week now.</blockquote>
<p>- Error messages:</p>
<p>Multiple instances of "Error retrieving [...] via WKD: connection
timed out" where [...] is email address of the owner of each key.</p>
<p>Multiple instances of "Error reading key: Connection refused".</p>
Multiple instances of red colored "ERROR: could not update key
[...]" where [...] is an alphanumeric code.
<p>- Suspicion:</p>
<p>Lately in 2021, but I saw several other people at both Arch and
Parabola forums to report similar errors where I concluded this
was related to European's GDPR case where a public keyserver (or
something related to it) being shutdown. Perhaps this is the cause
of my issue.</p>
<p>- Notes:</p>
I have read and practiced both <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://wiki.parabola.nu/Parabola_Keyring">https://wiki.parabola.nu/Parabola_Keyring</a>
and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://wiki.parabola.nu/Pacman_troubleshooting">https://wiki.parabola.nu/Pacman_troubleshooting</a>
command by command, multiple times for days, which both are often
referenced to face such issues I mentioned above and it still
failed. <br>
<p>- Question:</p>
<p>How to solve this issue?</p>
<p><br>
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<p>Thank you very much and please forgive me of my mistakes for I am
a new member here. <br>
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<p>Sincerely yours,</p>
<p>Ade Malsasa Akbar<br>
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