Description of problem: While running yum update, yum throws the following error: Running rpm_check_debug ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve: libsmbios is needed by (installed) smbios-utils-bin-2.2.19-4.1.el3.i386 Complete! (1, [u'Please report this error in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Red%20Hat%20Enterprise%20Linux%205&component=yum']) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Happens every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Clean yum (to make sure nothing's outstanding) 2. Run yum update 3. Error produces itself. Actual results: Spits error Expected results: Clean yum update. Additional info:
Run: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest ...you'll probably find that it's a preexisting problem in the rpmdb,