Can not update a freshly loaded Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS

From: Dave Basener (dbasener_at_aurora.edu)
Date: 05/18/05

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    Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 10:06:25 -0500
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    I have a new academic license for 9 machines. The first machine went
    fine, but the second machine has been the same problem after 4 separate
    full, clean installs. I have varied the package mix and in the latest I
    used the default packages.

    When I run up2date it downloads the 2 up2date packages that it suggests
    I update first and then hangs. The log file has:

    [Wed May 18 09:31:35 2005] up2date updating login info
    [Wed May 18 09:31:35 2005] up2date logging into up2date server
    [Wed May 18 09:31:36 2005] up2date successfully retrieved authentication
    token from up2date server
    [Wed May 18 09:31:47 2005] up2date availablePackageList from network
    [Wed May 18 09:33:10 2005] up2date solving dep for: ['up2date']
    [Wed May 18 09:33:12 2005] up2date solving dep for: ['up2date']
    [Wed May 18 09:34:10 2005] up2date installing packages:
    ['up2date-4.4.5.6-2', 'up2date-gnome-4.4.5.6-2']
    [Wed May 18 09:34:16 2005] up2date RPM dependency error. The message was:
    Dependencies should have already been resolved, but they are not.

    ==============================

    The response to the command line (up2date) is:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/gui.py", line 2158, in doInstallation
        kernelsToInstall = up2date.installPackages(self.selectedPkgList,
    self.rpmCallback)
      File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 752, in
    installPackages
        runTransaction(ts, added, removed,rpmCallback, rollbacktrans =
    rollbacktrans)
      File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 618, in
    runTransaction
        "but they are not."), deps)
    up2date_client.up2dateErrors.DependencyError: RPM dependency error. The
    message was:
    Dependencies should have already been resolved, but they are not.

    ===============================

    If I just try to rpm the 2 up2date rpms:

    rpm --install up2date-4.4.5.6-2.i386.rpm up2date-gnome-4.4.5.6-2.i386.rpm
    error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 74 Header V3 DSA signature:
    BAD, key ID db42a60e
    error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 102 Header V3 DSA signature:
    BAD, key ID db42a60e
    error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 74 Header V3 DSA signature:
    BAD, key ID db42a60e
    error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 74 Header V3 DSA signature:
    BAD, key ID db42a60e
    error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 65 Header V3 DSA signature:
    BAD, key ID db42a60e
    error: Failed dependencies:
            /usr/bin/python is needed by up2date-4.4.5.6-2.i386
            mkinitrd >= 3.2.2 is needed by up2date-4.4.5.6-2.i386
            python >= 2.2.2 is needed by up2date-4.4.5.6-2.i386
            python-optik is needed by up2date-4.4.5.6-2.i386
            sh-utils is needed by up2date-4.4.5.6-2.i386
            /usr/bin/python is needed by up2date-gnome-4.4.5.6-2.i386
        Suggested resolutions:
            coreutils-5.2.1-31.i386.rpm
            mkinitrd-4.1.18-2.i386.rpm
            python-2.3.4-14.i386.rpm

    =============================

    Now, I already have coreutils-5.2.1-31
    <https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/packages/details.pxt?sid=1005568695&id_combo=35203%7c251001>
    , mkinitrd-4.1.18-2
    <https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/packages/details.pxt?sid=1005568695&id_combo=500000012%7c90945>,
    python-2.3.4-14
    <https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/packages/details.pxt?sid=1005568695&id_combo=500000210%7c37620>
    but I'm a good sport and so I downloaded these from RH and ran the rpm
    again:

    I am now given a new list of RPMs that I should get - which I, according
    to RHN, already have, but that's OK, I'm game - I download
    ncurses-5.4-13
    <https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/packages/details.pxt?sid=1005568695&id_combo=500000009%7c241139>
    and module-init-tools-3.1-0.pre5.3
    <https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/packages/details.pxt?sid=1005568695&id_combo=38423%7c247334>
    and try again.

    Now I just get:
    "error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 65 Header V3 DSA signature:
    BAD, key ID db42a60e"
    repeated until universal heat-death.

    BTW, querying a package doesn't work either:
    rpm --query python-2.3.4-14.i386 coreutils-5.2.1-31
    error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 74 Header V3 DSA signature:
    BAD, key ID db42a60e
    error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 65 Header V3 DSA signature:
    BAD, key ID db42a60e

    Does any one have any suggestions? Anything obvious that I am doing
    wrong? RedHat has already told me that they don't want to talk to me
    because I have an Academic License. At some point I am going to conclude
    that being unable to upgrade a machine because of errors that their tool
    tells me it should have been able to avoid is a violation of the license.

    Thanks for any help at all.

    Dave Basener 

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