Online update fails for most packages

I'm trying to update my SuSe 9.3 (AMD64) system and certain packages that
the utility tells me are needed cannot be installed. They download part or
most of the way, but then I get the message:

ERROR(You:RPM has invalid signature.)

This may be related to my previous message in this forum.

This is preventing me from getting some critical fixes, so anyone who can
help would be greatly appreciated.

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> I'm trying to update my SuSe 9.3 (AMD64) system and certain packages
> that
> the utility tells me are needed cannot be installed. They download
> part or most of the way, but then I get the message:
>
> ERROR(You:RPM has invalid signature.)
>
> This may be related to my previous message in this forum.
>
> This is preventing me from getting some critical fixes, so anyone who
> can help would be greatly appreciated.
>

Have you inported the rpm keys?

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baskitcaise wrote:
> Marty adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:
>
>> I'm trying to update my SuSe 9.3 (AMD64) system and certain packages
>> that
>> the utility tells me are needed cannot be installed. They download
>> part or most of the way, but then I get the message:
>>
>> ERROR(You:RPM has invalid signature.)
>>
>> This may be related to my previous message in this forum.
>>
>> This is preventing me from getting some critical fixes, so anyone who
>> can help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Have you inported the rpm keys?

If it wasn't part of the automated process, that would be a big "no". Is
that part of some registration process that I may have skipped? How can I
get this key after the fact?

Thanks for the help.

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> If it wasn't part of the automated process, that would be a big "no".
> Is
> that part of some registration process that I may have skipped? How
> can I get this key after the fact?
>

Nope nothing to do with registration, registration is purely voluntary,
the keys are rpm`s themselves and they put the security keys onto your
machine so that Yast/YOU can verify that the rpm is indeed a valid one
that has come from the correct source.

Which packages are they?

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baskitcaise wrote:
> Marty adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:
>
>> If it wasn't part of the automated process, that would be a big "no".
>> Is
>> that part of some registration process that I may have skipped? How
>> can I get this key after the fact?
>
> Nope nothing to do with registration, registration is purely voluntary,
> the keys are rpm`s themselves and they put the security keys onto your
> machine so that Yast/YOU can verify that the rpm is indeed a valid one
> that has come from the correct source.

It looks like the package for the keyring is there, looking at the
"Install/Remove software" applet in YaST.

> Which packages are they?

freeradius, bzip2, glibc, xorg-x11-libs, sudo, dhcpcd, udev, mailman,
gnutls, fetchmail, kdelibs3, netpbm, kdebase3, pcre, kernel,
apache2-mod_php4, pam_ldap, apache2, evolution-data-server, squid,
util-linux, and OpenOffice_org.

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baskitcaise wrote:
> Marty adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:
>
>> If it wasn't part of the automated process, that would be a big "no".
>> Is
>> that part of some registration process that I may have skipped? How
>> can I get this key after the fact?
>>
>
> Nope nothing to do with registration, registration is purely voluntary,
> the keys are rpm`s themselves and they put the security keys onto your
> machine so that Yast/YOU can verify that the rpm is indeed a valid one
> that has come from the correct source.

Where exactly should these keys go? I opened up Kgpg and located and
retrieved the "SuSE Package Signing Key", but I'm still not seeing a
difference. How do I register this key with YOU?

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Marty adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:

> baskitcaise wrote:
>> Marty adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:
>>
>>> If it wasn't part of the automated process, that would be a big
>>> "no". Is
>>> that part of some registration process that I may have skipped? How
>>> can I get this key after the fact?
>>>
>>
>> Nope nothing to do with registration, registration is purely
>> voluntary, the keys are rpm`s themselves and they put the security
>> keys onto your machine so that Yast/YOU can verify that the rpm is
>> indeed a valid one that has come from the correct source.
>
> Where exactly should these keys go? I opened up Kgpg and located and
> retrieved the "SuSE Package Signing Key", but I'm still not seeing a
> difference. How do I register this key with YOU?
>

Hi Marty,

I found what I was looking for, have a look at this link and see if that
helps.

http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2005/0...lost_keys.html

Sorry it took so long have been extremely busy with /work/ spit!!

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baskitcaise wrote:
> Hi Marty,
>
> I found what I was looking for, have a look at this link and see if that
> helps.
>
> http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2005/0...lost_keys.html
>
> Sorry it took so long have been extremely busy with /work/ spit!!

Exactly what I needed to get back on track. Thanks!

If it's of any interest how I got in this mess, it is because I manually
mirrored the parts of the installation tree that I thought I needed on a
second machine, so that I could perform two local FTP installs. Apparently
I left out these critical *.asc files.

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Marty adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:

> Exactly what I needed to get back on track. Thanks!
>
> If it's of any interest how I got in this mess, it is because I
> manually mirrored the parts of the installation tree that I thought I
> needed on a
> second machine, so that I could perform two local FTP installs.
> Apparently I left out these critical *.asc files.
>

Glad you got it working, thanks for the feedback as well now the thread
will be searcable and the result shown for anyone with a similar
problem.

Enjoy.
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Twixt hill and high water
N. Wales, UK
Novell Support Forums SysOp