On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 10:13:17AM -0500, Alex White wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: > >Tim and Alison wrote: > > > > > >>I have had to rebuild my FC2 box and tried to use YUM to update the > >>packages. > >>It has downloaded all the new RPM files but I am getting the following > >>error when it tries to install the packages > >> > >>error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 286 Header V3 DSA signature: > >>BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2 > > > > > >I've no idea how to solve your problem, > >but it reminds me how bad the error messages in yum are - > >if it works (as it does 90% of the time) it is a marvellous resource. > >But if it fails, you can be sure the error message will be unintelligible. > > The error above is not a problem with yum. It's a problem with rpm > having a corrupt database. Try this and see if it works for you. > > cd /var/lib/rpm > rm __db* > > run yum again and see if it complains. > > Alex White I would rebuild the database first: rpm --rebuilddb -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
