Re: RPM just did something weird - after yum update.

Jani Ollikainen wrote:

error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 876 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD,
key ID e42d547b

Error messages like those and tons of them. So i tried to do:

rpm --rebuilddb

Which told me, "Segmentation Fault".

I fetched the key from keyserver..

pub  1024D/E42D547B 2000-07-03 Matthias Saou (Thias) <matthias.saou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
sub  1024g/40043CA7 2000-07-03

Imported to rpm..

Now:

rpm -qa
..list of some packets...
elfutils-0.89-2
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     876 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID e42d547b
Segmentation fault

So what ... .... did the update do?

I have another thread where rpm upgrades are segfaulting. Here is some advice given to me, which you will need the rpm-devel package by the way:

There's probably something corrupt in the rpmdb, if --rebuilddb doesn't cure it then you can try the alternative method:

Take a backup:
# cd /var/lib
# tar czvf /tmp/rpmdb.tar.gz rpm

Do a basic verify of the packages db:
# cd /var/lib/rpm
# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify Packages

Repair it:
# mv Packages Packages-ORIG
# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_dump Packages-ORIG | /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_load Packages

See if it worked:
# rpm -qa

If that works ok then rebuild indices:
# rpm --rebuilddb

----This did not fix my particular problem, but might be something for you to try.

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Brian Hankins