Apt was generating errors tonight when I was trying to do an update:

W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 010908312D230C5F
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

Unfortunately, re-running apt-get update did not fix anything.

After doing a little hunting on the web, I found out that this was because I was missing the latest GPG public key that Apt uses for signature checking.

To fix it, I used the procedure for mixing Ubuntu and Debian (scroll down to the part about downloading the key) and it resolved the issues. But the post to debian-announce about using secure apt with testing has a much easier method.

Update: I edited this post a little bit to clarify what the problem was. And people seem to be using it. Cool!

I gave up trying to get Gentoo installed on my Sun Ultra 5. Instead I downloaded the netinst CD for Debian Sparc and loaded that instead. Booted, and let the installer do its thing.

I’m currently running the 2.4.27-2-sparc64 kernel and everything seems to be working. Still getting some odd hard drive errors on boot (probably due to my botched Sun disk label), but other than that… so far so good.

As a side note, I added a new list of hostnames to the Naming Schemes website tonight. Enjoy.

Update: According to trave11er in #debian-sparc, the hard drive errors are nothing to worry about and should be ignored. They supposedly don’t show up with a 2.6.x kernel, so I’m downloading the Debian Testing release now. Time to reinstall…. again.

Another update: It worked. I’m now running Debian Testing (codename “etch”) with a 2.6.12-1-sparc64 kernel. No more hard drive errors during boot. So far so good.