On Thursday 14 July 2005 07:37, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 07:09 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> It said there were 78 packages in 870 megs to go and started >> downloading some more packages. I left it twiddling its own thumbs >> and came up here to check the mail. 20 mins later I unblank a >> very pretty screen to discover its outputting, at 2 locations on >> the same terminal window, continuous lines of: >> >> error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping #h 325 Header V3 DSA signature: >> BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2 > >My deepest sentiments, but your rpmdb is broken very badly ;-) > >Unfortunately, recovering from such kind of breakage is non-trivial > and often impossible ... > How about a reset and when rebooted, if it will, doing an rpm --rebuilddb? >Ralf -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.