Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 88343
redhat-install-packages chokes, maybe due to lack of public key?
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:52:52 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030313 Description of problem: redhat-install-packages won't install packages for me. It start calculating dependencies, maybe finishes that for all I know, and then dies. If it's done from the GUI (from the file manager) it dies silently. If it's done from the command line, it leaves a traceback (see below). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-packages-1.1.8-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Red Hat 9. 2. Do not set up RHN stuff when the firstboot wizard asks. (I don't know if this step is strictly required to reproduce this bug, but it might be.) 3. Log in as a normal user and su to root. 4. Insert (for example) Red Hat CD #2 and let it automount. 5. Assuming (for example) kernel-utils is not installed, run redhat-install-packages from the command prompt to install it. (This gives more informative output than using the file manager.) Actual Results: [root@localhost root]# cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/ [root@localhost RPMS]# redhat-install-packages kernel-utils-2.4-8.29.i386.rpm error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/SinglePackageWindow.py", line 252, in ? main_window.run() File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/SinglePackageWindow.py", line 216, in run self.do_initial_setup () File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/SinglePackageWindow.py", line 145, in do_initial_setup h = ts.hdrFromFdno(fd) rpm.error: public key not available [root@localhost RPMS]# Expected Results: Installation of the selected package, or resolution of the dependencies, or some kind of user-readable (i.e. something users can understand) error message that shows up in the GUI. Additional info: AFAICT there are no GPG public keys installed in the RPM database.
It looks like there's more to this than missing keys... [root@localhost root]# rpmdb --rebuilddb [root@localhost root]# redhat-install-packages /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-utils-2.4-8.29.i386.rpm error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/SinglePackageWindow.py", line 252, in ? main_window.run() File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/SinglePackageWindow.py", line 216, in run self.do_initial_setup () File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/SinglePackageWindow.py", line 145, in do_initial_setup h = ts.hdrFromFdno(fd) rpm.error: public key not available [root@localhost root]# rpm -K !$ rpm -K /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-utils-2.4-8.29.i386.rpm /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-utils-2.4-8.29.i386.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#db42a60e) [root@localhost root]# rpm -q 'gpg-pubkey-*' package gpg-pubkey-* is not installed [root@localhost root]# rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY [root@localhost root]# rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/BETA-RPM-GPG-KEY [root@localhost root]# rpm -q 'gpg-pubkey-*' gpg-pubkey-db42a60e-37ea5438 gpg-pubkey-897da07a-3c979a7f [root@localhost root]# rpm -K /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-utils-2.4-8.29.i386.rpm /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-utils-2.4-8.29.i386.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 md5 gpg OK [root@localhost root]# redhat-install-packages /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-utils-2.4-8.29.i386.rpm error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/SinglePackageWindow.py", line 252, in ? main_window.run() File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/SinglePackageWindow.py", line 216, in run self.do_initial_setup () File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/SinglePackageWindow.py", line 145, in do_initial_setup h = ts.hdrFromFdno(fd) rpm.error: public key not available [root@localhost root]# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages [root@localhost root]# Hmmm.... This was with "nosysinfo" as a kernel boot option (otherwise I get a message from rpm --rebuilddb). Other possibly relevant info: kernel 2.4.20-9 rpm 4.2-1 (test-4.2 from ftp.rpm.org) My original discovery of this bug was done with kernel 2.4.20-8, without the "nosysinfo" option, and with the version of rpm 4.2 that came on the Shrike ISOs.
Does 1.1.9-1 at http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/redhat-config-packages/1.1.9/ fix your problem?
I've been having the same problem, because of a missing GPG key. The new 1.1.9-1 packages don't crash anymore, but they don't give me even a warning about the missing key. Isn't this a security issue?
*** Bug 90152 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***