Unknown error executing gpgv

Question

I have a single deb entry:

# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb ftp://debian.uchicago.edu/debian testing main contrib non-free

I get this glitch when I update:

#aptitude update
...
W: GPG error: ftp://debian.uchicago.edu testing InRelease: Unknown error executing gpgv
W: GPG error: ftp://debian.uchicago.edu testing InRelease: Unknown error executing gpgv

Didn't find any solutions on the net. May be there is someone here, who can help?

Thanx.

What happened if you just execute `gpgv` yourself from the same prompt? — user, Jul 13 '12 at 09:11
So at least you have a seemingly working `gpgv` binary. That's good to know. — user, Jul 13 '12 at 10:46

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 28 '12 at 00:20

Just ran into this problem myself.

Seems like this is a problem with corrupted downloads. There's more information in this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=657561

Per the last email there, going into /var/lib/apt/lists/ and deleting the files in question then running apt-get update again seems to fix it for me.

Unknown error executing gpgv

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