Re: error running yum update for the first time

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 16:10 -0500, David Anthrope wrote:
> I have a newly installed RH9 system (meaning I just installed RH9
> out of the box, clean, and have no updates applied),
> and I've installed yum and told it to update.
> 
> After looking for dependencies, yum says it needs to
> install libao (0.8.3-3.i386) and prompts me y/n
> to which I respond y of course.
> Then it returns an error:
> error: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: MD5 digest: BAD 
> Expected(long-hex-string) != (other-long-hex-string)
> 
> It then continues along installing other things
> but eventually returns several other errors (which I'm presuming
> probably result from the initial error).
> 
> Can anyone offer me some insight?

You need to provide the full errors you see before I can even begin to
take a guess.

-sv