Showing posts with label sysadmin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sysadmin. Show all posts

Friday, January 16, 2009

Ubuntu: invalid GPG signatures during apt-get update

If you get a message like the following while running apt-get update on Ubuntu:

W: GPG error: http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key 
Try deleting the files in /var/lib/apt/lists/ (but leave the 'partial' directory alone) and running apt-get update again.

Source: update gpg error? - Ubuntu Forums

Thursday, January 15, 2009

ntpd "Invalid argument" messages in log

I noticed that ntpd was generating a bunch of these messages in my logs.

Jan 14 06:05:14 starbug ntpd[5574]: sendto(xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) (fd=22): Invalid argument
Jan 14 06:05:36 starbug ntpd[5574]: sendto(yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy) (fd=22): Invalid argument
Jan 14 06:05:40 starbug ntpd[5574]: sendto(zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz) (fd=22): Invalid argument

A quick Google search will tell you that this happens when your interface changes. In my case, my dynamic IP address from my ISP had changed. Restarting the ntpd service will correct the problem.