Not sure if this is related to bug 647964. If yes, you now have a reproducer I think: Well, I patched gemato's dirmngr.conf. However, I included an invalid option. But now "emerge --sync" will give me > * Refreshing keys from keyserver ...OpenPGP keyring refresh failed: > gpg: keyserver refresh failed: Syntax error in URI > > OpenPGP keyring refresh failed: > gpg: keyserver refresh failed: Syntax error in URI > > OpenPGP keyring refresh failed: > gpg: keyserver refresh failed: Syntax error in URI > > OpenPGP keyring refresh failed: > gpg: keyserver refresh failed: Syntax error in URI > > OpenPGP keyring refresh failed: > gpg: keyserver refresh failed: Syntax error in URI > > OpenPGP keyring refresh failed: > gpg: keyserver refresh failed: Syntax error in URI > > OpenPGP keyring refresh failed: > gpg: keyserver refresh failed: Syntax error in URI > > OpenPGP keyring refresh failed: > gpg: keyserver refresh failed: Syntax error in URI > > OpenPGP keyring refresh failed: > gpg: keyserver refresh failed: Syntax error in URI > > OpenPGP keyring refresh failed: > gpg: keyserver refresh failed: Syntax error in URI > > OpenPGP keyring refresh failed: > gpg: keyserver refresh failed: Syntax error in URI until I manually stop sync via CTRL+C. I think gemato should not try forever...
gemato doesn't retry at all. It's either Portage or GnuPG itself. Could you verify and reassign appropriately, please?