# Ansible Tower Installation Failing

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-installation-failing/27663>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [May 30, 2018, 8:52am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-installation-failing/27663 "2018-05-30T08:52:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gowtham\_Nakulan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/90db22/32.png) [@Gowtham\_Nakulan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Gowtham_Nakulan)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 8:52am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-installation-failing/27663/1 "2018-05-30T08:52:49Z")

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Ansible tower installation is failing with the below error message.

failed: [localhost] (item={u’id’: u’0x6B73A36E6026DFCA’, u’keyserver’: u’[hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net](http://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net)’}) =\> {“changed”: false, “cmd”: “/usr/bin/apt-key adv --keyserver [hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net](http://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net) --recv 6B73A36E6026DFCA”, “item”: {“id”: “0x6B73A36E6026DFCA”, “keyserver”: “[hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net](http://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net)”}, “msg”: “Error fetching key 6B73A36E6026DFCA from keyserver: [hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net](http://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net)”, “rc”: 2, “stderr”: “gpg: requesting key 6026DFCA from hkp server [hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net](http://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net)\ngpg: keyserver timed out\ngpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error\n”, “stderr\_lines”: [“gpg: requesting key 6026DFCA from hkp server [hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net](http://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net)”, “gpg: keyserver timed out”, “gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error”], “stdout”: “Executing: /tmp/tmp.xgECNuNDcs/gpg.1.sh --keyserver\nhkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net\n–recv\n6B73A36E6026DFCA\n”, “stdout\_lines”: [“Executing: /tmp/tmp.xgECNuNDcs/gpg.1.sh --keyserver”, “[hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net](http://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net)”, “–recv”, “6B73A36E6026DFCA”]}