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