Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 73256
up2date crashed with rpm error due to lack of GPG key on kernel
Last modified: 2015-01-07 19:00:08 EST
Description of Problem: When I ran up2date and told it to grab the new kernel, I got a dialog indicating that the package was not signed and asking whether I should continue. I clicked "OK" and up2date crashed issuing an error message about an rpm error. Sadly, I do not have the exact details anymore, and can no longer reproduce the problem, so the above is the best I can do as far as specific details or error messages. But see below for some additional information. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date 2.9.55-2 How Reproducible: unknown Steps to Reproduce: 1. install (null) from scratch 2. manually update to the following by downloading and installing: libelf-0.8.2-2.i386.rpm libelf-devel-0.8.2-2.i386.rpm rpm-4.1-1.0.i386.rpm rpm-build-4.1-1.0.i386.rpm rpm-devel-4.1-1.0.i386.rpm rpm-python-4.1-1.0.i386.rpm up2date-2.9.55-2.i386.rpm up2date-gnome-2.9.55-2.i386.rpm 3. run up2date Actual Results: observe behavior described in "Problem Description"; i.e., up2date crashes after OK is selected on warning dialog about unsigned package Expected Results: It should have continued downloading Additional Information: I worked around this by turning off use of GPG. Now my system is up to date, so I can no longer reproduce the problem.
I think this was a combo of a weird rpm bug, a glibc bug, and up2date not handling the exception it got. It seems to work fine with current code bases of rpm/up2date (slightly newer versions of up2date/rpm than you list) 2.9.64 for up2date and I belive rpm-4.1-1.04 I'm setting this to modified since it seems to work for me in the current code base, and sounds like a bug thats known fixed.
This does seem to be fixed.... any reason why it's still open?
Closing out based on feedback from the original poster.