WARNING:DO NOT UPGRADE TO CORE 4

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 10:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 14 July 2005 07:37, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 07:09 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> It said there were 78 packages in 870 megs to go and started
> >> downloading some more packages. I left it twiddling its own thumbs
> >> and came up here to check the mail.  20 mins later I unblank a
> >> very pretty screen to discover its outputting, at 2 locations on
> >> the same terminal window, continuous lines of:
> >>
> >> error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping #h 325 Header V3 DSA signature:
> >> BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2
> >
> >My deepest sentiments, but your rpmdb is broken very badly ;-)
> >
> >Unfortunately, recovering from such kind of breakage is non-trivial
> > and often impossible ...
> >
> How about a reset and when rebooted, if it will, doing an rpm 
> --rebuilddb?

C.f. to the parallel thread - If you're lucky, you can recover from this
(backup /var/lib/rpm before any attempt to fix it).

Ralf