On 2026-03-22 12:05:01, Joel Roth via Dng wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 04:30:51PM -0400, Jeremy Phelps via Dng wrote:
> > I ran "apt-get update" today, and instead of working, it printed this error:
> >
> > W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is
> > not updated and the previous index files will be used. OpenPGP signature
> > verification failed: http://us.deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-backports
> > InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public
> > key is not available: NO_PUBKEY B3982868D104092C
>
> I've experienced this error before. It may be transient.
> I waited and it spontaneously resolved. For me, update
> went fine just now.

Likely that particular mirror was just in the middle of updating it's
repo files.

us.deb.devuan.org is part of our DNS-RR by county code. It does help
track these things down if you could supply the IP of the mirror that
failed.