RPM query error

[Tim Wunder]

On 2/5/2003 12:03 PM, someone claiming to be Gerry Doris wrote:
>>Yep, RH8.
>>I was planning on searching google, usually do on these things, but
>>chose to post on list first. Thanks for the links, though.
>>
>>Looks like it's the same old rpm problem I've experienced before
>>(different symptom, though).
>>
>>Regards,
>>Tim
>>
>>On 2/5/2003 9:02 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
>>
>>>You didn't say, but i'll bet money that this is on RH8.  See:
>>>https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-November/005070.html
>>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73198
>>>https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-November/005100.html
>>>
>>>Google is your friend.
>>>
>>>On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Tim Wunder wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>When I execute rpm -qa |grep <whatever>, I was getting an error :
>>>>error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     274 Header V3 DSA signature:
>>>>BAD, key ID db42a60e
>>>>
>>>>rpm --rebuilddb has fixed it, but I'm curious, anybody seen anything
>>>>like that before? Any ideas on what might cause the error?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Tim
> 
> 
> I posted several times on the redhat psyche list that I was getting these
> exact same problems but never received a reply.  I would also fix it
> temporarily by doing an rpm --rebuilddb.
> 
> I even ended up doing a complete fresh install and after a week the
> problem starting showing up again.
> 
> However, I use an Nvidia 440 card and had loaded the latest Nvidia binary
> drivers (I think they're 4191).  I had experienced problems on this same
> system under Win98 after I started using that level of Nvidia driver.  I
> changed back to Nvidia's 3123 level and haven't seen any trace of the bad
> file descriptor problems since on either RH 8.0 or Win98.  It's been
> running for about two weeks now straight without problems.
> 
> I have another RH 8.0 system dual booting with XP Pro.  It has a GEForce3
> card in it and is using the 4191 drivers without problems????
> 

I have a Matrox G450, I highly doubt that the problem is related to 
anything Nvidia...

Regards,
Tim