Re: Unable to use `package-refresh-contents`: Bad signature from GNU ELPA Signing Agent

[Nicky Chorley]

Putting

(package-initialize)

at the top didn't help either (and FWIW I copied and pasted the whole thing).

Also, I tried

$  wget https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/archive-contents{,.sig} && gpg2
--homedir ~/.emacs.d/elpa/gnupg/ --verify archive-contents.sig

... wget output omitted for brevity...

gpg: assuming signed data in 'archive-contents'
gpg: Signature made Sun 23 Jun 2019 10:10:02 AM BST using DSA key ID 7FBDEF9B
gpg: Good signature from "GNU ELPA Signing Agent
<elpasign@elpa.gnu.org>" [unknown]
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg:          There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: CA44 2C00 F917 74F1 7F59  D9B0 474F 0583 7FBD EF9B

So, it seems that gpg2 can verify the signature perfectly well.

Best,

Nicky

On Sun, 23 Jun 2019 at 12:50, VanL <van@scratch.space> wrote:
>
>
> > On 23 Jun 2019, at 14:50, Nicky Chorley <nick.chorley@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > (setq package-archives '(("gnu" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/";)))
>
> At the top of my .emacs is the following...
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (package-initialize)
> (setq package-archives '(("gnu" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/";)
>                          ("org" . "https://orgmode.org/elpa/";)
>                          ("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/";)))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>