Initial Problems with FC1

[Dick Roth]

Well I've dug a hole and can't seem to get out:

Can't update via up2date because it says I am not associated with any
channels. (When I first installed a few hours ago, I was associated with
two default channels, but they have disappeared.)

I tried downloading the latest up2date manually, but when running rpm it
came back with an error:

error: up2date-4.1.21-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2
error: up2date-4.1.21-3.i386.rpm cannot be installed

I don't understand this at all!  What key do I need and where do I get
it?

I'm stymied.  I have lots of software to load and/or upgrade, but I know
there are a whole bunch of packages that need updates.

Can someone lend a few words of help to get me going?

Thanks for your patience,
Dick

-- 
In these trying times, Ben Franklin's view should be a guide:

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
        safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (1759)

[Antonio Montagnani]

Dick Roth wrote/ha scritto, On/il 01/05/2004 08:05:

> Well I've dug a hole and can't seem to get out:
>
> Can't update via up2date because it says I am not associated with any
> channels. (When I first installed a few hours ago, I was associated with
> two default channels, but they have disappeared.)
>
> I tried downloading the latest up2date manually, but when running rpm it
> came back with an error:
>
> error: up2date-4.1.21-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2
> error: up2date-4.1.21-3.i386.rpm cannot be installed
>
> I don't understand this at all!  What key do I need and where do I get
> it?
>
> I'm stymied.  I have lots of software to load and/or upgrade, but I know
> there are a whole bunch of packages that need updates.
>
> Can someone lend a few words of help to get me going?
>
> Thanks for your patience,
> Dick
>
>   
>  
I am not a guru but I have two points:

1) I suggest to re-install the original up2date from CD because it seems 
that you cannot validate software
2) do you have a file called sources in /etc/Sysconfig/rhn??? please 
post the list of file is such directory



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[Dick Roth]

To those who responded, thank you.  After a long day, all is well.

I came close to re-installing from CD, but little by little, by reading
listers' comments and suggestions, I finally am 100% FC1.

The biggest problem was the default sources file.  Following Alexander
Dalloz's suggestions, I modified it to use a different mirror. 
Unfortunately, all mirrors don't have lots of bandwidth and the first
mirror I chose crept along at 13-27 KB/s.  I found a faster one by trial
and error.

Did I miss a "Readme" file that said not to try to register with Red
Hat?  Doing that messed up up2date so it wouldn't associate with the
proper channels.  I finally got that squared away (but I'm not sure I
know how I did it!!).

At any rate, thanks to all.  I'm now ready to upgrade my machine at the
office...I think.

Dick

On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 02:27, antonio montagnani wrote:
>  Dick Roth wrote/ha scritto, On/il 01/05/2004 08:05:
>  
>  >Well I've dug a hole and can't seem to get out:
>  >
>  >Can't update via up2date because it says I am not associated with any
>  >channels. (When I first installed a few hours ago, I was associated with
>  >two default channels, but they have disappeared.)
>  >
>  >I tried downloading the latest up2date manually, but when running rpm it
>  >came back with an error:
>  >
>  >error: up2date-4.1.21-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2
>  >error: up2date-4.1.21-3.i386.rpm cannot be installed
>  >
>  >I don't understand this at all!  What key do I need and where do I get
>  >it?
>  >
>  >I'm stymied.  I have lots of software to load and/or upgrade, but I know
>  >there are a whole bunch of packages that need updates.
>  >
>  >Can someone lend a few words of help to get me going?
>  >
>  >Thanks for your patience,
>  >Dick
>  >
>  >  
>  >
>  I am not a guru but I have two points:
>  
>  1) I suggest to re-install the original up2date from CD because it seems 
>  that you cannot validate software
>  2) do you have a file called sources in /etc/Sysconfig/rhn??? please 
>  post the list of file is such directory
>  
>  
>  
>  -- 
>  
>   Antonio M.
>  
>   =========================================================
>   Working with  Mozilla 1.6 on Redhat Linux Fedora Core 1
>   =========================================================
>   =========================================================
>       Uso Mozilla 1.6 su Redhat Linux Fedora Core 1
>   ========================================================= 
-- 
In these trying times, Ben Franklin's view should be a guide:

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
        safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (1759)

[David Niemi]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick Roth" <raroth7(a)comcast.net&gt;

>  Well I've dug a hole and can't seem to get out:
>
>  Can't update via up2date because it says I am not associated with any
>  channels. (When I first installed a few hours ago, I was associated with
>  two default channels, but they have disappeared.)
>
>  I tried downloading the latest up2date manually, but when running rpm it
>  came back with an error:
>
>  error: up2date-4.1.21-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2
>  error: up2date-4.1.21-3.i386.rpm cannot be installed
>
>  I don't understand this at all!  What key do I need and where do I get
>  it?
>
>  I'm stymied.  I have lots of software to load and/or upgrade, but I know
>  there are a whole bunch of packages that need updates.
>
>  Can someone lend a few words of help to get me going?
>  
I'm pretty new to this myself and have been playing with up2date for a
couple days trying to get everything updated.

If you seach the Mailing Lists (eg. fedora-list) you may find some
information in some of the threads as I did.

Check the configuration of up2date: up2date --config.  Part of the
configuration is the location and use of the key.

check the sources file to ensure that you have sites listed to download from
in the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file

Myself I found I had better luck by supplying a mirror that was close by to
download the updates from.  Lots of good information on the Mailing lists on
how to set the paths etc.  Also found that things worked better if I cleaned
out the /var/spool/up2date/ directory, especially when I switched to a
mirror.

Suggestion:  there is a high volume of mail on this list so that your
message doens't get missed your subject line should be directly related to
what you are asking about like up2date.

Good Luck.
  Dave

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 01.05.2004 schrieb Dick Roth um 08:05:

>  Well I've dug a hole and can't seem to get out:
>  
>  Can't update via up2date because it says I am not associated with any
>  channels. (When I first installed a few hours ago, I was associated with
>  two default channels, but they have disappeared.) 
If you signed up with RHN, then that was a fault.

>  I tried downloading the latest up2date manually, but when running rpm
> it
>  came back with an error:
>  
>  error: up2date-4.1.21-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2
>  error: up2date-4.1.21-3.i386.rpm cannot be installed
>  
>  I don't understand this at all!  What key do I need and where do I get
>  it? 
rpm --import /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-1/RPM-GPG-KEY

>  I'm stymied.  I have lots of software to load and/or upgrade, but
> I know
>  there are a whole bunch of packages that need updates.
>  
>  Can someone lend a few words of help to get me going? 
In /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources change up2date default to be commented
with a leading #, in the case you signed up RHN. And then see

http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/

on how to setup the usage of a mirror server source being near to your
location.

For updating it is a good advice and saves some time if you do not
update the whole bunch at one time. Just select only parts of the
packages available for updating. And for updating XFree86 I would
recommend you switch to runlevel 3 first, using command init 3, to
ensure no X is running . You then have to use up2date-nox on command
line.

>  Thanks for your patience,
>  Dick 
Alexander


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