Weird, the only change to the on April 21 was a security errata that was 
published just like the rest.

I'll rebuild the metadata across the board just to be safe.

Pat

On 04/23/2016 05:38 PM, P. Larry Nelson wrote:
> I am having same problem with 3 of my SL5.x systems. One is 5.1 and 
> two are 5.4.
> All my other SL 5.x are 5.5 and have had no problems, nor have I seen 
> this
> problem with any of my SL6.x systems.
>
> The problem seems to be with sl-security repo.
> If I do a 'yum update --disablerepo=sl-security' on the 5.1 and 5.4 
> systems
> I do NOT get the:
>
> Error: file is encrypted or is not a database
>
> This just started happening with the early morning auto yum update on 
> 4/22/16.
>
> - Larry
>
> Joseph Areeda wrote on 4/23/16 4:35 PM:
>> I see people are having the same problem with some of the version 7 
>> repos. But I
>> don't understand how to figure out which repo is causing the problem. 
>> Are people
>> disabling star and enabling one at a time?
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>  Joe
>>
>> On 4/23/16 1:53 PM, Joseph Areeda wrote:
>>> We started getting this error couple of days ago machine that has 
>>> been auto
>>> updating for years. I would assume that it was a corruption of a local
>>> database but it happened on two systems simultaneously.
>>>
>>>  Googling for that error message produces nothing on yum but several 
>>> hits on's
>>> SQLite.
>>>
>>>  I'd appreciate any insight into what the error means and how to 
>>> track down
>>> exactly which repo or file on my system is causing it the problem.
>>>
>>>  Below is what I see, yum update also produces the same error message.
>>>
>>>  Thanks,
>>>  Joe
>>>
>>> [root@mavraki yum.repos.d]# yum clean all
>>> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
>>> Cleaning repos: CONDOR-stable VDT-Production-sl6 elrepo lscsoft-epel
>>> lscsoft-pegasus lscsoft-production sl sl-security
>>> Cleaning up Everything
>>> Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
>>> [root@mavraki yum.repos.d]# yum repolist
>>> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
>>> Determining fastest mirrors
>>>  * elrepo: elrepo.org
>>>  * sl: ftp1.scientificlinux.org
>>>  * sl-security: ftp1.scientificlinux.org
>>> CONDOR-stable | 2.9 kB     00:00
>>> CONDOR-stable/primary_db | 427 kB     00:00
>>> VDT-Production-sl6 | 1.3 kB     00:00
>>> VDT-Production-sl6/primary |  35 kB     00:00
>>> VDT-Production-sl6 11/11
>>> elrepo | 2.9 kB     00:00
>>> elrepo/primary_db | 732 kB     00:00
>>> lscsoft-epel | 2.7 kB     00:00
>>> lscsoft-epel/primary_db | 4.2 MB     00:02
>>> lscsoft-pegasus | 2.6 kB     00:00
>>> lscsoft-pegasus/primary_db | 5.8 kB     00:00
>>> lscsoft-production | 2.9 kB     00:00
>>> lscsoft-production/primary_db | 301 kB     00:00
>>> sl | 3.5 kB     00:00
>>> sl/primary_db | 4.2 MB     00:03
>>> sl-security | 3.0 kB     00:00
>>> sl-security/primary_db |  12 MB     00:06
>>> Error: file is encrypted or is not a database
>>> [root@mavraki yum.repos.d]#
>
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