Can not update a freshly loaded Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS

Wed May 18 15:29:07 UTC 2005

I have ran into that same problem from time to time.  I am using Fedora Core
3 and sometimes get errors like that.  I just ignore the updates until
either later on in the day or the next day.  It could be too many updates on
the same network.  I know Red Hat use to have a distribution method for
installing updates across multiple servers.  But that was back in the day of
RH 7.2

Robert Williams
Programmer / Web Developer / Network Administrator
Covenant Data Systems, Inc.
http://www.covenantdata.com
rwilliams at covenantdata.com  

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Dave Basener
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 10:06 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Can not update a freshly loaded Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS

I have a new academic license for 9 machines.  The first machine went 
fine, but the second machine has been the same problem after 4 separate 
full, clean installs.  I have varied the package mix and in the latest I 
used the default packages.

When I run up2date it downloads the 2 up2date packages that it suggests 
I update first  and then hangs.  The log file has:

[Wed May 18 09:31:35 2005] up2date updating login info
[Wed May 18 09:31:35 2005] up2date logging into up2date server
[Wed May 18 09:31:36 2005] up2date successfully retrieved authentication 
token from up2date server
[Wed May 18 09:31:47 2005] up2date availablePackageList from network
[Wed May 18 09:33:10 2005] up2date solving dep for: ['up2date']
[Wed May 18 09:33:12 2005] up2date solving dep for: ['up2date']
[Wed May 18 09:34:10 2005] up2date installing packages: 
['up2date-4.4.5.6-2', 'up2date-gnome-4.4.5.6-2']
[Wed May 18 09:34:16 2005] up2date RPM dependency error. The message was:
Dependencies should have already been resolved, but they are not.

==============================

The response to the command line (up2date) is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/gui.py", line 2158, in doInstallation
    kernelsToInstall = up2date.installPackages(self.selectedPkgList, 
self.rpmCallback)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 752, in 
installPackages
    runTransaction(ts, added, removed,rpmCallback, rollbacktrans = 
rollbacktrans)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 618, in 
runTransaction
    "but they are not."), deps)
up2date_client.up2dateErrors.DependencyError: RPM dependency error. The 
message was:
Dependencies should have already been resolved, but they are not.

===============================

If I just try to rpm the 2 up2date rpms:

rpm --install up2date-4.4.5.6-2.i386.rpm up2date-gnome-4.4.5.6-2.i386.rpm
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      74 Header V3 DSA signature: 
BAD, key ID db42a60e
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     102 Header V3 DSA signature: 
BAD, key ID db42a60e
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      74 Header V3 DSA signature: 
BAD, key ID db42a60e
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      74 Header V3 DSA signature: 
BAD, key ID db42a60e
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      65 Header V3 DSA signature: 
BAD, key ID db42a60e
error: Failed dependencies:
        /usr/bin/python is needed by up2date-4.4.5.6-2.i386
        mkinitrd >= 3.2.2 is needed by up2date-4.4.5.6-2.i386
        python >= 2.2.2 is needed by up2date-4.4.5.6-2.i386
        python-optik is needed by up2date-4.4.5.6-2.i386
        sh-utils is needed by up2date-4.4.5.6-2.i386
        /usr/bin/python is needed by up2date-gnome-4.4.5.6-2.i386
    Suggested resolutions:
        coreutils-5.2.1-31.i386.rpm
        mkinitrd-4.1.18-2.i386.rpm
        python-2.3.4-14.i386.rpm

=============================

Now, I already have coreutils-5.2.1-31 
<https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/packages/details.pxt?sid=1005568695
&id_combo=35203%7c251001> 
, mkinitrd-4.1.18-2 
<https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/packages/details.pxt?sid=1005568695
&id_combo=500000012%7c90945>, 
python-2.3.4-14 
<https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/packages/details.pxt?sid=1005568695
&id_combo=500000210%7c37620> 
but I'm a good sport and so I downloaded these from RH and ran the rpm 
again:

I am now given a new list of RPMs that I should get - which I, according 
to RHN, already have, but that's OK, I'm game - I download   
ncurses-5.4-13 
<https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/packages/details.pxt?sid=1005568695
&id_combo=500000009%7c241139> 
and module-init-tools-3.1-0.pre5.3 
<https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/packages/details.pxt?sid=1005568695
&id_combo=38423%7c247334> 
and try again.

Now I just get:
"error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      65 Header V3 DSA signature: 
BAD, key ID db42a60e"
repeated until universal heat-death.

BTW, querying a package doesn't work either:
rpm --query python-2.3.4-14.i386 coreutils-5.2.1-31
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      74 Header V3 DSA signature: 
BAD, key ID db42a60e
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      65 Header V3 DSA signature: 
BAD, key ID db42a60e

Does any one have any suggestions?  Anything obvious that I am doing 
wrong?  RedHat has already told me that they don't want to talk to me 
because I have an Academic License. At some point I am going to conclude 
that being unable to upgrade a machine because of errors that their tool 
tells me it should have been able to avoid is a violation of the license.

Thanks for any help at all.

Dave Basener

-- 
"... be the change you wish to see in the world."  - Gandhi

David Basener               http://www.aurora.edu/~dbasener
System Administrator                Dave.Basener at aurora.edu
Aurora University                              630 844 4889

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