Yum and RPM with FC2

[Alexander Apprich]

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 10:13:17AM -0500, Alex White wrote:
> 
>>Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>
>>>Tim and Alison wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I have had to rebuild my FC2 box and tried to use YUM to update the
>>>>packages.
>>>>It has downloaded all the new RPM files but I am getting the following
>>>>error when it tries to install the packages
>>>>
>>>>error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     286 Header V3 DSA signature:
>>>>BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2
>>>
>>>
>>>I've no idea how to solve your problem,
>>>but it reminds me how bad the error messages in yum are -
>>>if it works (as it does 90% of the time) it is a marvellous resource.
>>>But if it fails, you can be sure the error message will be unintelligible.
>>
>>The error above is not a problem with yum. It's a problem with rpm 
>>having a corrupt database. Try this and see if it works for you.
>>
>>cd /var/lib/rpm
>>rm __db*
>>
>>run yum again and see if it complains.
>>
>>Alex White
> 
> I would rebuild the database first: rpm --rebuilddb

Hmmm, I've seen similar problems with corrupted rpm database on RH9 and
FC*, and rebuilding the rpm db without cleaning out the __db* files
resulted in a hanging rpm --rebuild. IMHO removing the temp. db files
before rebuilding the rpm db is the better idea...

Just my two cents

Alex