Warning on update to 1.40.5.8897 plexmediaserver.gpg

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#: 1.40.5.8897
Player Version#: N/A
Debian 12.6

This morning I did the update to 1.40.5.8897 and for the first time got a warning when doing an update. Since this is a warning about the gpg file, I have to ask why.

This is the warning from the update process:

PlexMediaServer install: WARNING: Unable to install Plex GPG signing key in /usr/share/keyrings/plexmediaserver.gpg
PlexMediaServer install: PlexMediaServer-1.40.5.8897-e5987a19d - Installation successful. Errors: 0, Warnings: 1

Everything seems to be working OK but I expect the gpg file is necessary for updates or connectivity so …

Two questions.

  1. I’ve been running this Plex server for years and it has been on Debian 12 for about 6 months. Why the issue now?
  2. How do I fix this?

Thanks in advance for any help.

2

Engineering and operations are changing from the SHA-1 signing key (which is grossly deprecated and nastily obsolete) to a 512bit package signing key.

There are a couple issues with getting it to build and sign properly on the build system. It’s almost resolved.

Notice the installer is giving you a warning. It’s not a fatal error.
It’s just an annoying warning until they resolve it (shortly)

3

Thanks for the info @ChuckPa .

So we can expect that it will be resolved in a future update?

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Yes. We talked about it (got update) in last weeks staff meeting. We use Github Actions for part of the build. Those Github Actions are the source of the issue.