fatal RPM Error

[Paul Howarth]

Syl wrote:
> I am running FC2 and I have been using RHN alert notification tool with no
> problems until recently when I tried to update xemacs, xemacs-common,
> xemacs-info. Now I keep getting "fatal RPM error. The message was: Error
> reading header". How do I work around this problem?

The downloaded RPM files are probably in /var/spool/up2date; what 
message do you get if you try to update them manually?

# cd /var/spool/up2date
# rpm -Uvh xemacs*.rpm

Paul.