Can not update a freshly loaded Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS

Thu May 19 06:02:29 UTC 2005

Dave Basener wrote:

> 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
>
I ran into this problem when installing Fedora Core 3. I solved it in 
up2date by updating those packages that would update without problems. 
It meant selecting small groups of ten or less at a time to update and 
see how many would update.. Unselecting any that had dependency problems 
and going on. I continued this until all the packages that could be 
updated were updated. I then started over with the ones that were left. 
Some of them updated so I started over with the ones that were left, ... 
eventually all the packages in the list updated.

It was a slow process and took a lot of "babysitting" the updates, but 
eventually everything updated. Often I found that if a package would not 
update on its own, if there was also a -devel package with the same 
name, selecting the -devel package first would update both packages.

I don't know if that will help and I'm sure you don't want to go through 
a process like that with nine machines. Wish I could make a better 
suggestion.

Carl.