fatal RPM Error

[Paul Howarth]

Syl wrote:
> Paul, Here are the results
> 
> 
>># ls -l /var/spool/up2date
> 
> A very long list of 1740 headers. I can post it if necessary :)

(snip)

>>#up2date-nox --update
> 
> 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-2
> using mirror: http://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc2
> using mirror:
> http://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/i386/
> 
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: fedora-core-2...
> 
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: updates-released-fc2...
> 
> Fetching rpm headers...
> ########################################
> 
> Name                                    Version        Rel
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> gaim                                    1.1.3          1.FC2
> i386
> squid                                   2.5.STABLE8    1.FC2.1
> i386
> xemacs                                  21.4.17        0.FC2
> i386
> xemacs-common                           21.4.17        0.FC2
> i386
> xemacs-info                             21.4.17        0.FC2
> i386
> 
> 
> Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
> There was a fatal RPM error. The message was:
> Error reading header

I think you've probably got a corrupted RPM header file. Try this:

# cd /var/spool/up2date
# rm xemacs*.hdr gaim*.hdr squid*.hdr
# up2date-nox --update

That should re-download the headers for the new updates I believe.

Paul.