rpm acting odd on fresh install

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 19:07 -0400, tyche wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 16:48 -0400, tyche wrote:
> > 
> >>Rick Stevens wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 21:03 -0400, tyche wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>this morning i installed fc2 on a comp. went to add some 
> >>>>other programs to it via rpm -i rpm returns:
> >>>>
> >>>>error: rpmsdb NextIterator: skipping h#         246 header 
> >>>>V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2
> >>>>
> >>>>those programs that rpm doesnt error out with it gives a 
> >>>>depends on error. even if the dependacy is there. when you 
> >>>>try to reinstall the dependancy, you get the same error 
> >>>>message with a different header #
> >>>>
> >>>>any idea how to fix?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Become the root user and perform the following steps:
> >>>
> >>>	1.  # cd /var/lib/rpm
> >>>	2.  # rm -f __db.*
> >>>	3.  # rpm --rebuilddb
> >>>
> >>>This rebuilds the database files for RPM.  Once that's all done, you can
> >>>try to do your "rpm -i" commands to install the packages you want.
> >>>
> >>>Give it a try and let us know how you get along.  Also note that FC2 is
> >>>quite old and I'm not even sure Fedora Legacy is still supporting it.
> >>>The current release of Fedora Core is FC5.
> >>>
> >>
> >>dont have the resources to upgrade beyond that right now. 
> >>could always go back to rh8
> > 
> > 
> > RH8 is even older!  FC5 is free.
> 
> i know. its not the price of the cdrom that is the bother, 
> its upgrading the system.
> 
> > 
> > 
> >>will let you know about that database
> > 
> > 
> > Ok.
> deleted the db files, had a screen full of key errors go 
> whipping by.

What?  By doing "rm -f __db.*"?  If that's the case, then the filesystem
is suspect, kemosabe, and you'd better fix that BEFORE you do anything
else.

>  rebuild, same problem, tho i can use -i --force 
> -- nodeps. but most of the packages installed are there 
> (gawk for instance, isnt recognized as being installed by 
> rpm tho it does run)

Again, if the "rm -f" stuff spewed errors, you have far, FAR more
serious problems.

> 
> as for the no support, can always download the source and 
> recompile. its just getting the source codes that is a pain.
> 
> tia, will keep trying the rpm files in /var see what is what 
> in there. will keep ya updated on progress.

Please do.

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