yum update failed with bad key id

[Jeff Johnson]

tracker

[Terre (terre-redhat-bugs)]

Description of problem:
Yum update failed with a message to put in a bug report.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-14.el5.centos.1
yum-3.2.22-26.el5.centos
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-3.el5.centos
yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5

How reproducible:
Unknown

Actual results:

#yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * addons: centos.omnispring.com
 * base: yum.singlehop.com
 * extras: mirror.trouble-free.net
 * rpmforge: fr2.rpmfind.net
 * updates: yum.singlehop.com
base/primary_db | 2.1 MB 00:02
extras | 2.1 kB 00:00
extras/primary_db | 226 kB 00:00
rpmforge | 1.1 kB 00:00
rpmforge/primary | 3.6 MB 00:08
rpmforge 10089/10089
updates | 1.9 kB 00:00
updates/primary_db | 324 kB 00:00
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package cups.x86_64 1:1.3.7-18.el5_5.4 set to be updated
---> Package cups-libs.i386 1:1.3.7-18.el5_5.4 set to be updated
---> Package cups-libs.x86_64 1:1.3.7-18.el5_5.4 set to be updated
---> Package esc.x86_64 0:1.1.0-12.el5 set to be updated
---> Package lftp.x86_64 0:4.0.9-1.el5.rf set to be updated
---> Package libsmbclient.x86_64 0:3.0.33-3.29.el5_5 set to be updated
---> Package samba.x86_64 0:3.0.33-3.29.el5_5 set to be updated
---> Package samba-client.x86_64 0:3.0.33-3.29.el5_5 set to be updated
---> Package samba-common.x86_64 0:3.0.33-3.29.el5_5 set to be updated
---> Package xulrunner.x86_64 0:1.9.2.4-9.el5 set to be updated
---> Package yelp.x86_64 0:2.16.0-26.el5 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================================================================
 Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================================================================
Updating:
 cups x86_64 1:1.3.7-18.el5_5.4 updates 3.1 M
 cups-libs i386 1:1.3.7-18.el5_5.4 updates 198 k
 cups-libs x86_64 1:1.3.7-18.el5_5.4 updates 194 k
 esc ...

[seth (seth-redhat-bugs)]

reassigning to rpm.

[Jeff Johnson (n3npq)]

No way to reproduce.

[Florian (florian-redhat-bugs)]

Looks like the rpmdb was damaged before the transaction already. This can happen if rpm is killed while working on the database.