Hi All, I wonder if someone can help. My rpm db was corrupted. So I ran rm -f __db* followed rpm rebuild db which ran OK. But I keep getting the following error. error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm warning: kernel-source-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 025e513b error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm -- Regards JC
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From: centos-bounces at caosity.org [mailto:centos-bounces at caosity.org] On
Behalf Of JCT
Sent: 18 January 2005 11:11
To: centos at caosity.org
Subject: [Centos] rpm db
Hi All,
I wonder if someone can help. My rpm db was corrupted.
So I ran rm -f __db* followed rpm rebuild db which ran OK. But I keep
getting the following error.
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
warning: kernel-source-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature:
NOKEY, key
ID 025e513b
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
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Regards
JC
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On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 11:10 +0000, JCT wrote:> Hi All, > > I wonder if someone can help. My rpm db was corrupted. > > So I ran rm -f __db* followed rpm rebuild db which ran OK. But I keep > getting the following error. > > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > warning: kernel-source-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key > ID 025e513b > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpmHave you upgraded the rpm package since your last reboot? ... sometimes after an rpm upgrade, I have to restart my machine.
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, JCT wrote:> Hi All, > > I wonder if someone can help. My rpm db was corrupted. > > So I ran rm -f __db* followed rpm rebuild db which ran OK. But I keep > getting the following error. > > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > warning: kernel-source-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key > ID 025e513b > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpmthat sounds like you don't have permission to read the rpm db. Are you sure that you are running as root or that you didn't change the permissions on /var/lib/rpm? -ryan -- Ryan Sweet <ryan.sweet at aoes.com> Advanced Operations and Engineering Services AOES Group BV http://www.aoes.com Phone +31(0)71 5795521 Fax +31(0)71572 1277
i believe a server re-install is required....ive done that before, what you did and i had to re-install....yet there might be a way to salvage it but im not exactly sure the proper way