At least the software does tell you what it's doing before it seems to hang. It would be nicer if it printed dots or something, but since this tool is just a wrapper for gpg's key management functions, I guess its to gpg's team you should make your complaint.
]]>... not forever, only a minute or so, just be a little patient
Yes I realized that later on after I posted. The command sits there for a ridiculously long time with no output so it seems to the user that it is hanging on a connection. So just crappy software design.
]]>That first command above hangs forever...
... not forever, only a minute or so, just be a little patient
]]>I would try if switching the keyserver and using HTTP port 80 work.
]]>pacman-key --refresh-keys
and update archlinux32-keyring before any other packages:
pacman -S archlinux32-keyring
pacman -Syu