[CentOS] Nmap update checksum failures.

Wed Feb 15 11:02:22 UTC 2006
Adriano Frare <alfrare at e-alinux.com>

Best soluction is

yum exclude=nmap* update

Peter Kjellström wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 February 2006 22:14, William L. Maltby wrote:
> 
>>Sorry to reply to myself, but ...
>>
>>On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 13:45 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 10:55 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
>>>
>>>>><snip>
>>>>
>>>>Try running 'yum clean all' then 'yum update'  and see what you get.
>>>>rpmforge should include all of dag's packages anyway so there
>>>>shouldn't be a problem. All I can tell you is it "WorksForMe".
>>>
>>>All the other's updated fine. I'm going to ribit and do a forced fsck to
>>>make sure I'm not getting victimized by a creeping calamitous failure on
>>>my HD. Then I'll try some manual junk.
>>
>>Ummm... I'd try some manual junk if I had any idea where to start. I did
>>the reboot, fsck, and even tried a yum update while in single user mode.
>>ImageMagick updated ok, but the two files here failed again.
>>
>>   nmap-frontend.i386 2:4.01-1.2.el4.rf
>>   nmap.i386 2:4.01-1.2.el4.rf
>>
>>Since I'm under the aegis of WFM now, if someone could give a starting
>>point for me to follow and resolve, I'd appreciate it and stop pestering
>>you all. I can't figure why only this one should be a problem only for
>>my installation. *sigh*.
> 
> 
> FWIW, I see the exact same problem here with all of my centos-4 machines that 
> have nmap from rpmforge.net. I consider it a broken rpm package (but havn't 
> looked into it yet. I dropped dag a line about it.
> 
> You can allways update and, for the time, ignore nmap like this:
> yum --exclude=nmap update
> 
> /Peter
> 
> 
>>TIA
>>
>>A few tidbits from the most recent attempt ============
>>Total download size: 775 k
>>Is this ok [y/N]: y
>>Downloading Packages:
>>(1/2): nmap-frontend-4.01 100% |=========================|  29 kB
>>00:00
>>http://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/nmap-
>>frontend-4.01-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm: [Errno -1] Package does not match
>>checksum
>>Trying other mirror.
>>http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/nmap-
>>frontend-4.01-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not
>>Satisfiable
>>Trying other mirror.
>>http://wftp.tu-
>>chemnitz.de/pub/linux/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/nmap-
>>frontend-4.01-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not
>>Satisfiable
>>Trying other mirror.
>>http://archive.cs.uu.nl/mirror/dag.wieers/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/nmap-
>>frontend-4.01-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable
>>Trying other mirror.
>>http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/nm
>>ap-frontend-4.01-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not
>>Satisfiable Trying other mirror.
>>http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/nmap-
>>frontend-4.01-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not
>>Satisfiable
>>Trying other mirror.
>>http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/nmap-
>>frontend-4.01-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not
>>Satisfiable
>>Trying other mirror.
>>http://rh-
>>mirror.linux.iastate.edu/pub/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/nmap-
>>frontend-4.01-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not
>>Satisfiable
>>Trying other mirror.
>>http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/nmap-
>>frontend-4.01-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable
>>Trying other mirror.
>>http://ftp2.lcpe.uni-
>>sofia.bg/freshrpms/pub/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/nmap-
>>frontend-4.01-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not
>>Satisfiable
>>Trying other mirror.
>>(2/2): nmap-4.01-1.2.el4. 100% |=========================| 746 kB
>>00:01
>>http://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/nmap-4.01-1.2.el4.
>>rf.i386.rpm: [Errno -1] Package does not match checksum Trying other mirror.
>>http://ftp-stud.fht-
>>esslingen.de/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/nmap-4.01-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm:
>>[Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable Trying other mirror.
>>http://wftp.tu-
>>chemnitz.de/pub/linux/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/nmap-4.01-1.2.el4.rf.
>>i386.rpm: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable Trying other mirror.
>>http://archive.cs.uu.nl/mirror/dag.wieers/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/nmap-
>>4.01-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable Trying
>>other mirror.
>>http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/nm
>>ap-4.01-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable
>>Trying other mirror.
>>http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/nmap-4.01-1.2.e
>>l4.rf.i386.rpm: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable Trying other
>>mirror.
>>http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/nmap-4.01-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm:
>>[Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable Trying other mirror.
>>http://rh-
>>mirror.linux.iastate.edu/pub/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/nmap-4.01-1.2.
>>el4.rf.i386.rpm: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable Trying other
>>mirror.
>>http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/nmap-
>>4.01-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable Trying
>>other mirror.
>>http://ftp2.lcpe.uni-
>>sofia.bg/freshrpms/pub/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/nmap-4.01-1.2.el4.rf
>>.i386.rpm: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable Trying other mirror.
>>
>>
>>Error Downloading Packages:
>>  nmap - 2:4.01-1.2.el4.rf.i386: failure:
>>RPMS/nmap-4.01-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm from rpmforge: [Errno 256] No more
>>mirrors to try.
>>  nmap-frontend - 2:4.01-1.2.el4.rf.i386: failure: RPMS/nmap-
>>frontend-4.01-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm from rpmforge: [Errno 256] No more
>>mirrors to try.
>>[root at wlmlfs08 ~]#
>>
>>
>>>Thanks anyway.
>>>Bill
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