Error message when refreshing keys

[Dr. Peter Voigt]

On Thu, 28 May 2015 10:56:01 +0200
"Dr. Peter Voigt" <pvoigt at uos.de> wrote:

> I am on 10.1-RELEASE (amd64) and have installed latest gpg 2.0.27
> from ports. When issuing
> 
> # gpg --refresh-keys
> 
> operation seems to work but I am getting following error messages at
> the end:
> 
> ...
> gpg: keyserver communications error: Not found
> gpg: keyserver communications error: Bad public key
> gpg: keyserver refresh failed: Bad public key
> 
> On an openSUSE machine I have installed gpg 2.0.22 and I have no such
> error message.
> 
> Is this a know error? What does it mean? Is it FreeBSD specific? 
> 
> Any hints are appreciated.
> 
> Peter

Well, I experimented a bit: I completely deleted my public keyring and
re-imported all keys from a keyserver. I had one key not available on a
keyserver that caused the error message. After deleting the key in
question, no error messages show up any more.

GPG 2.0.22, however, does not complain about this key.

Peter