On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 10:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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? C.f. to the parallel thread - If you're lucky, you can recover from this (backup /var/lib/rpm before any attempt to fix it). Ralf
