 | View Full Version : rpm signature issues x222943 08-17-2002, 01:45 AM when i try to install most any rpm distributed by redhat, it wont install... no error, warning, etc. when i hit checksig, i get sig: unknown details: unknown signature test failed what exactly does this mean and what do i need to do to correct it? bitserve 08-17-2002, 01:13 PM Have you recently upgraded your RPM subsys? What OS are you running? If there is no messages or anything, how are you verifying that they're not being sucessfully installed? What user are you running rpm as? What do you mean "hit checksig"? Are you doing this through some GUI? x222943 08-17-2002, 01:44 PM redhat 7.2 using the rpm manager, i know it doesnt install because it does nothing when i hit install, like the status dialog, and the "1 of 1 packages successfully installed" message also doesnt come up, and i can check and its not listed anywhere as installed... running user as root to attempt to install them... the rpm manager has a checksig button on it, so you dont have to do it manually though the command line... thanks 2host.com 08-17-2002, 02:01 PM Originally posted by x222943 redhat 7.2 using the rpm manager, i know it doesnt install because it does nothing when i hit install, like the status dialog, and the "1 of 1 packages successfully installed" message also doesnt come up, and i can check and its not listed anywhere as installed... running user as root to attempt to install them... the rpm manager has a checksig button on it, so you dont have to do it manually though the command line... thanks What does verbose output tell you? x222943 08-17-2002, 06:33 PM whats that? :o bitserve 08-18-2002, 02:11 AM Try it from the command line. 2host.com 08-18-2002, 02:48 AM Originally posted by x222943 whats that? :o Basically, this error is just telling you that the MD5 checksum is not matching like it should. This might be a good indication to not use that RPM. However, you say it does this on many. If you log into a shell session and type "rpm -ivh nameof.rpm" or "rpm -Uvh nameof.rpm" if you're upgrading, it will display the error messages and reasons (sometimes). Although in this case it will probably just give you the same error anyway. Are these source RPMs, or binary RPMs? You might want to check zlib, etc. to make sure that it's working properly to check against the MD5 signatures. If you still have problems, let me know and I'll try and suggest something more helpful. In the meantime any other information you can provide would be helpful to us. x222943 08-18-2002, 04:36 AM they are binary... how can i check that zlib is working correctly? thanks for the help so far. im slowly leaning. :eek: |