It's not able to upgrade from x86_64 SL40 to SL41 by yum.
The error message is "Header is not complete".


rpmdb-SL-41-0.20050808.x8 100% |=========================| 4.3 kB 00:00
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/41/x86_64/SL/RPMS/rpmdb-SL-41-0.20050808.x86_64.rpm:
[Errno -1] Header is not complete.
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: rpmdb-SL-41-0.20050808.x86_64.rpm from sl-base: [Errno
256] No more mirrors to try.


I follow the steps of upgrade HOWTO URL
https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade

1. rpm -Uvh
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/41/x86_64/SL/RPMS/yum-conf-41-4.SL.noarch.rpm
2. yum update yum

****
Updated: yum.noarch 0:2.2.2-1.SL
Complete!

3. yum upgrade

******
rpmdb-SL-41-0.20050808.x8 100% |=========================| 4.3 kB 00:00
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/41/x86_64/SL/RPMS/rpmdb-SL-41-0.20050808.x86_64.rpm:
[Errno -1] Header is not complete.
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: rpmdb-SL-41-0.20050808.x86_64.rpm from sl-base: [Errno
256] No more mirrors to try.

Regards
Blade Tank Administrator



Connie Sieh ´£¨ì:

>Scientific Linux 4.1 for x86_64 Release Candidate 2.75     	August 8, 2005
>
>Located at
>
>ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/41/x86_64/
>ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/41/iso/x86_64/
>
>
>ITEMS that have changed since last 40rolling for x86_64
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>fontconfig had to be recompiled so the the md5sum of fonts-conf matched 
>for both i386 and x86_64, since they both were the same file otherwise there
>were yum install problems.
>
>	fontconfig-2.2.3-7.SL4.i386.rpm
>	fontconfig-2.2.3-7.SL4.x86_64.rpm
>	fontconfig-devel-2.2.3-7.SL4.x86_64.rpm
>
>ERRATA since last 40rolling
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>       irb-1.8.1-7.EL4.1.x86_64.rpm
>       ruby-1.8.1-7.EL4.1.x86_64.rpm
>       ruby-devel-1.8.1-7.EL4.1.x86_64.rpm
>       ruby-docs-1.8.1-7.EL4.1.x86_64.rpm
>       ruby-libs-1.8.1-7.EL4.1.x86_64.rpm
>       ruby-libs-1.8.1-7.EL4.1.i386.rpm
>       ruby-mode-1.8.1-7.EL4.1.x86_64.rpm
>       ruby-tcltk-1.8.1-7.EL4.1.x86_64.rpm
>       squirrelmail-1.4.3a-12.EL4.noarch.rpm
>
>-Connie Sieh
>-Troy Dawson
>  
>