[7234] in testers
rpmdb corruption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Sat Jul 9 07:58:44 2005
Message-Id: <200507091158.j69BwWGt003734@bearing-an-hourglass.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 07:58:32 -0400
I tried to take 9.4.10 on vorpal-blade, and the update failed because
of a fissing findutils package. Note that I've never un-installed
this package, and all of the files that are in it exist on vorp.
/etc/athena/rpmupdate -n -p /dev/null /var/athena/release-rpms
confirmed that findutils was the only missing package, but removing
the -n caused it to spew errors of the form:
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 2770 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID db42a60e
running 'rpm --rebuilddb' allowed rpmupdate to re-add the findutils
rpm, and allowed me to proceed to the next error:
vorpal-blade.mit.edu# update_ws
Beginning update from 9.4.9 to 9.4.10 at Sat Jul 9 07:25:56 EDT 2005.
Version: $Id: update,v 1.20 2005/07/08 17:12:56 ghudson Exp $
warning: rhel-4-updates/RPMS/cpp-3.4.3-22.1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e
error: rhel-4-updates/RPMS/glibc-common-2.3.4-2.9.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID db42a60e
rpmupdate: Invalid package file rhel-4-updates/RPMS/glibc-common-2.3.4-2.9.i386.rpm
*** The update has failed ***
Please contact Athena Cluster Services at x3-1410. -Athena Operations
Update complete; please reboot for changes to take effect.
Whcih after some fumbling I fixed by stoping afs, mkfs-ing the cache
partition and rebooting.
Unfortunately, my machine then hung during the update (it hung last
weekend too, and I currentyl suspect a hardware problem, but that's a
guess. I guess I will be sad now.
Jonathon
