Npn OSS VirtualBox key issues

[stan]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 02:14:19PM -0800, NoOp wrote:
> On 12/23/2010 08:39 AM, stan wrote:
> > I have one machine that is on 10.20 (my laptop), and a number of machines
> > till on 10.04, since it is a LTS. I amusing Virtualbox )non OSS version) on
> > several of the production machines, and I need to get it autodownloaded, so
> > that when the LTS machine upgradee to a new kernel version things do not
> > stop working.
> > 
> > On the 10.10 machine, apt-key list shows:
> > 
> > pub   1024D/98AB5139 2010-05-18
> > uid                  Oracle Corporation (VirtualBox archive signing key)
> > <info at virtualbox.org>
> > sub   2048g/281DDC4B 2010-05-18
> > 
> > On the 10.04 machines I have:
> > 
> > pub   1024D/98AB5139 2010-05-18
> > uid                  Oracle Corporation (VirtualBox archive signing key)
> > <info at virtualbox.org>
> > sub   2048g/281DDC4B 2010-05-18
> > 
> > The /etc/apt/sources.list line on the 10.10 machines is:
> > 
> > deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian maverick non-free
> > 
> > and on the 10.04 ones it is:
> > 
> > deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lucid non-free
> > 
> > On the 10.10 machine an apt-get update goes OK, but on the 10.04 ones it
> > does this:
> > 
> > W: GPG error: http://download.virtualbox.org lucid Release: The following
> > signatures were invalid: BADSIG 54422A4B98AB5139 Oracle Corporation
> > (VirtualBox archive signing key) <info at virtualbox.org>
> > W: Failed to fetch
> > http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/lucid/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2
> > Sub-process /bin/bzip2 returned an error code (2)
> > 
> > E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones
> > used instead.
> > 
> > This has been like this for at least a couple of weeks, and I really need
> > to get the production machines sorted out.
> > 
> > Any idea what is wrong, and how I cna fix this?
> > 
> > 
> 
> Have you tried the usual:
> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
> $ wget -q
> http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- |
> sudo apt-key add -
> to see if that corrects it?

Tes, and note that the singature on both the working machine, and the
non-working one is reprted the same by apt-key
> 
> Also note that 4.0 has been released:
> <quote>
> Debian-based Linux distributions ??

I do not think that isa prodcution ready release. Am I wrong?
> 
> Note: VirtualBox has been moved from non-free to contrib with 4.0, so
> please adjust your repository settings.
> </quote>
> 
> I got the 4.0 to show on lucid & updated. But it's not showing up in
> Maverick (synaptic) yet (32bit) (US or Main) despite it being in:
> http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.0/
> So I reckon I'll download directly & install.

I will be interested in your results. My geuss is that you are having the
same issue I am. My theory iis that the signature for the 10.04 packae is
bad.

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