problems with yum

[Matthias Saou]

Grizzly(Francis Smit) wrote :

> I'm having a problem with yum, when I try to use it it doesn't work any 
> more, instead
> I get the following:
> 
> -bash tty20 [997] $ yum install "*odbc*"
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - core
> Server: macromedia
> Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - os
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Resolving dependencies
> error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     975 Header V3 DSA signature: 
> BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2
> error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     975 Header V3 DSA signature: 
> BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2
[...]
> 
> but I have installed that key??? yum was working before???
> 
> also is there an archieve for this list, so I can avoid duplicating 
> questions ??

I think that this could have fixed it :

rm /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys
rpm --rebuilddb

I had similar symptoms when upgrading from rpm 4.0.x to 4.1.1 on RHL 7.3
systems that yum had apparently triggered :-/

Matthias

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