Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'virtualbox': repomd.xml GPG signature verification error: Bad GPG signature

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After upgrading from Fedora 37 to Fedora 38, I’m getting the following error when I run sudo dnf upgrade:

Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'virtualbox': repomd.xml GPG signature verification error: Bad GPG signature

I have run sudo dnf clean all, but the error persists.

How can I fix this?

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You will very likely have to uninstall VirtualBox then re-install after upgrade. Your configuration and VM’s should remain. There is a discussion about this very thing here if you search for virtualbox I believe it was just from yesterday.

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If you mean this post, it’s not the same issue. In my case VirtualBox works properly. It’s dnf upgrade that gives the error, so I suppose it’s a repository configuration issue, which I would like to fix.

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Since VirtualBox is provided by RPM Fusion, the standalone repo is no longer required and can be safely disabled:

sudo dnf config-manager --disable virtualbox
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I just did that, removed the previous installation of VirtualBox, and then reinstalled it, this time from RPM Fusion.

However, after that I got the same error as in this post: VirtualBox broke down after upgrage F37 to F38

Following the instructions in the error-informing window, I ran these commands:

sudo dnf install akmod-VirtualBox kernel-devel-$(uname -r)
sudo akmods
sudo systemctl restart vboxdrv.service

After that, VirtualBox worked properly.

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Glad to hear, could you mark your comment as the solution in this case?

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Looks like their repo cert file location changed, you can download the latest repo file and it should work fine.

wget https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/el/virtualbox.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo

This way you can keep using the virtualbox repo itself.

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Created an account to confirm sqmouse has the correct solution if you replace el with fedora. So:

sudo wget https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo

Worked in 36 and 38. Thank you.

PS: In a pinch, it is always possible to update manually with:

sudo dnf upgrade https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/36/x86_64/VirtualBox-7.0-7.0.8_156879_fedora36-1.x86_64.rpm

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