Re: kernel-2.4.20-9, invalid GPG signature

"Randall J. Parr" <RParr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 08 Apr 2003 13:39:38 -0700

I do not know if that would work. When the download of the kernel fails 
it leaves both a header and an rpm file in /var/spool/up2date. I do not 
know if up2date would realize it only needed the header file and 
download only that. It would sure be nice if that would work.

R.Parr
Temporal Arts

Joseph Phillips wrote:

Could I download the rpm from a redhat mirror, copy it to my
/var/spool/up2date and have it install that way?

On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 11:23, Randall J. Parr wrote:

Joseph Phillips wrote:

I received a RHN notice to upgrade my kernel to "kernel-2.4.20-9". 
However, during the upgrade process I received this error message"

"The package kernel-2.4.20-9 does not have a valid GPG signature.
It has been tampered with or corrupted.  Continue?"

What should I do?  What's the problem?  I attached a screenshot of this
error.

I have a client who, at around Jan/03, starting getting this error on 
big (ie kernel) up2dates. Before that he had up2dated the kernel with no 
problems. Repeated attempts to up2date and repeated attempts by him (and 
others) have proven unable to resolve this problem with up2date. 
Further, customer service does not seem to acknowledge or be interested 
in solving the problem.

He has been able to download the kernel RPMs separately using tools like 
GetRight on Windows first time, every time, with no problems.  This 
leads me to believe there was a change in the timeouts/restart/whatever 
configuration of Red Hat up2date servers.

The only solution we have found to-date is to download the kernel RPMs 
separately, install the kernel RPMs manually (using rpm -i NOT rpm -U), 
manually edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to make the new kernel the default, 
reboot, test, etc. and then manually sync the up2date information 
(up2date -p I think).

If you find a solution which does allow you to up2date kernels, let me know.

R.Parr, RHCE
Temporal Arts