Yum and RPM with FC2

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

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
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