Fixed!  Thanks Pat!

- Larry

Pat Riehecky wrote on 4/23/16 5:52 PM:
> 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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