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RHEL4 up2date error: rpmts_HdrFromFdno

Ran into an issue when using Red Hat Enterprise Linux up2date that it would fail to fetch a package. This was because mid way downloading the package, I aborted the operation using CTRL-C. When I was ready to resume the update, it returns a bad MD5 checksum error.

For this example, firefox was the affected package.

[root@myserv ~]# up2date firefox
 
Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
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error: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: MD5 digest: BAD Expected(81c2d6e93ee1f7ace498245b09bd61e8) != (aaa9b7a5ca1c69d470b3a2d3ea67fdc1)
firefox-3.6.7-3.el4.x86_64.  An error has occurred:
Unable to fetch requested Package
See /var/log/up2date for more information

This error is triggered from a package that is broken, and is not uncommon to happen.

To correct this, go into /var/spool/up2date and remove the broken package.

[root@myserv ~]# rm /var/spool/up2date/firefox-3.6.7-3.el4.x86_64.rpm

Run up2date again, success!

[root@myserv ~]# up2date firefox
 
Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
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firefox-3.6.7-3.el4.x86_64. ########################## Done.
19 Aug 2010