Re: How to remove the second public key?

[Alex Kruchkoff <akruchkoff fromru com>]

Axel Thimm wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 07:27:45PM +1000, Alex Kruchkoff wrote:
>  
>
> > > http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/
> > >      
> > 1. rebuilddb is the 1st thing I tried (before posting my problem). I 
> > just run strace on it - it died with
> >    
>
> Did you remove the __db* files before that?
>  
I didn't see __db* files for quite a long time.  Probably since I 
upgraded to rpm-4.2-1_14.rh9.at

> > write(2, "========== ??? pubkey id 90100a4"..., 42========== ??? pubkey 
> > id 90100a4040d10940
> > ) = 42
> > +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
> >    
> >
> > And below are all my signatures:
> >
> > rpm --nosignature -qa gpg\*
> > error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     128 blob size(3768): BAD, 8 + 
> > 16 * il(17) + dl(3456)
> > gpg-pubkey-66534c2b-3e60b428
> > gpg-pubkey-72de25fe-3b79e9fe
> > gpg-pubkey-db42a60e-37ea5438
> > gpg-pubkey-c431416d-3db4c821
> > error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     117 blob size(3192): BAD, 8 + 
> > 16 * il(17) + dl(3456)
> > gpg-pubkey-66534c2b-3e60b428
> > gpg-pubkey-897da07a-3c979a7f
> >    
>
> The 90100a4 seems to be missing in this list, and seems to cause the
> problem.
>
> Not really, but I would simply remove all signatures (and retry
> repairing) to see whether the problem is signature related or not. Try
>
> rpm -e --allmatches gpg-pubkey
the only signature left after this was your.

> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
I don't have such files, so there is nothing to remove.

> rpm --rebuilddb
rpm db repaired!!! :)))

I've reimported all signatures and everything is working. Thanks a lot.

Just to summarise: removing all signatures with --allmatches and 
rebuilding the db did the trick.

Thank you very much Axel.

Cheers
Alex Kruchkoff