[pkg-lxc-devel] Bug#993905: lxc-create fails GPG checkserver due to keyserver depreciation

[Kyle]

Package: lxc
Version: 1:4.0.6-2
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: kyleantispam at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,


lxc-create fails with the following error message caused by
sks-keyservers.net going offline, The lxc package currently in testing
includes a patch that fixes the issue by changing the keyserver from
pool.sks-keyservers.net to keyserver.ubuntu.com. This impacts both
oldstable and stable as of writing this.

Upstream patch that fixed the issue
https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/f2a5d95d00a55bed27ef9920d67617cc75fecad8

Error message
Setting up the GPG keyring
ERROR: Unable to fetch GPG key from keyserver
lxc-create: demo-container: lxccontainer.c: create_run_template: 1616 Failed to create container from template
lxc-create: demo-container: tools/lxc_create.c: main: 319 Failed to create container demo-container

Temporary work around
Setting environment variable DOWNLOAD_KEYSERVER to a working keyserver
allows it to work as expected.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-arm64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages lxc depends on:
ii  bridge-utils                 1.7-1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.77
ii  dnsmasq-base [dnsmasq-base]  2.85-1
ii  iproute2                     5.10.0-4
ii  iptables                     1.8.7-1
ii  libc6                        2.31-13
ii  libcap2                      1:2.44-1
ii  libgcc-s1                    10.2.1-6
ii  liblxc1                      1:4.0.6-2
ii  libseccomp2                  2.5.1-1
ii  libselinux1                  3.1-3
ii  lsb-base                     11.1.0

Versions of packages lxc recommends:
ii  apparmor       2.13.6-10
ii  debootstrap    1.0.123
ii  dirmngr        2.2.27-2
ii  gnupg          2.2.27-2
ii  libpam-cgfs    1:4.0.6-2
ii  lxc-templates  3.0.4-5
ii  lxcfs          4.0.7-1
ii  openssl        1.1.1k-1+deb11u1
ii  rsync          3.2.3-4
ii  uidmap         1:4.8.1-1
ii  wget           1.21-1

Versions of packages lxc suggests:
pn  btrfs-progs  <none>
ii  lvm2         2.03.11-2.1
pn  python3-lxc  <none>

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