Sigh, this is turning into a real nightmare. The yum upgrade download succeeded, but failed during the install: [bcox@linux etc]$ sudo yum upgrade Password: Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates error: rpmdb: damaged header #550 retrieved -- skipping. Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Finding obsoleted packages Resolving dependencies error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 904 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2 Segmentation fault This is precisely the problem I'd hoped the new install would have fixed. The reason I decided to move on to fedora now instead of waiting for it to mature is that I started getting errors in the RH8.0 rpm database. --rebuilddb doesn't fix it: bcox@linux etc]$ sudo rpmdb --rebuilddb error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 900 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 66534c2b ===snip; repeated many times === Segmentation fault I'd hoped the CD install process (as described below) would have built a new db, so I'm getting exactly the same errors once yum upgrade completes its download and tries to install. BTW rpm is 4.2.1. I hope someone here can advise. The system is usable at this point but not upgradable so I'll live with it for now. I don't have a CD writer, so I'll order a new CD set. I think the only solution will be to do a clean install from the CDs, right? Its a real bummer because the yum upgrade download completed just fine and all that's missing is the install. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks! At 6:59 PM -0500 11/21/03, Joseph Tate wrote: >Brad Cox wrote: > >>I'm upgrading from RH8.0 to Fedora via the CD "update" (not clean >>install) option. Seems the second CD is marginal (cheap distro) >>because several files weren't found until I retried them. >>Eventually failed altogether toward the end of the 2nd CD. I >>removed the CD and rebooted and it came up in Fedora just fine, >>missing only httpd. >> >>However it apparently didn't update yum.conf since /etc/yum.conf >>still points to RH8.0 repos. I'm inclined to avoid the flakey CD >>altogether and complete the upgrade with yum upgrade. Am I right >>that this is the right thing to do? If so I'll need to manually >>change yum.conf before trying this, right? Where can I get a fedora >>yum.conf? PS: There's an /etc/yum.conf.rpmnew but that's for 8.0 >>too. > >get the rpm from fedora.redhat.com, then run > >rpm2cpio yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm | cpio -i -d ./etc/yum.conf >Or just rpm -Uvh it. > >Before you do that however, make sure that you have rpm 4.2 installed. > >There's a -c option for yum that will let you use a yum.conf file in >a different location. > > > >_______________________________________________ >Yum mailing list >Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum -- Brad J. Cox, PhD, 703 361 4751, http://virtualschool.edu http://virtualschool.edu/mybank Digital Rights Management System http://virtualschool.edu/jco Java Cryptographic Objects (JCO) http://virtualschool.edu/jwaa Java Web Application Architecture (JWAA) http://virtualschool.edu/java+ Java Preprocessor (Java+)
