Re: [CentOS] hdr SHA1: BAD, not hex

m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

Got a problem with one workstation. What I'm seeing, from a yum update (saw it with make whatis first):

<snip> Running rpm_check_debug error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 1211 hdr SHA1: BAD, not hex <repeated many times> <snip> ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve: libicui18n.so.36 is needed by boost-1.33.1-10.el5_7.3.i386 libicuuc.so.36 is needed by boost-1.33.1-10.el5_7.3.i386 Complete! (1, [u'Please report this error in http://bugs.centos.org/set_project.php?project_id=16&ref=http://bugs.centos.org/bug_report_page.php?category=yum']) <snip>

Are there any workarounds, or do I need to file this bug?

Well, I found my own workaround: rpm --rebuilddb, then yum clean all.

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