[mythtv-users] OT: rpm and apt-get broken

[Vinton Coffman]

I know this is off topic but I was hoping someone could tell me how to 
fix this without breaking mythtv or starting over from scratch.

apt-get errors on update

[root at localhost root]#  apt-get update
Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386 release [1170B]
Get:2 http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de redhat/9/en/i386 release [1516B]
Fetched 2686B in 0s (7436B/s)
Hit http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de redhat/9/en/i386/at-stable pkglist
Hit http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de redhat/9/en/i386/at-stable release
Hit http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de redhat/9/en/i386/at-good pkglist
Hit http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de redhat/9/en/i386/at-good release
Hit http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de redhat/9/en/i386/at-testing pkglist
Hit http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de redhat/9/en/i386/at-testing release
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/os pkglist
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/os release
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/updates pkglist
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/updates release
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     678 blob size(2232): BAD, 8 + 
16 * il(67) + dl(1828)
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
[root at localhost root]#


and apt-get segfaults installing

[root at localhost root]#  apt-get install xmltv
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     678 blob size(2232): BAD, 8 + 
16 * il(67) + dl(1828)
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
Segmentation fault
[root at localhost root]#


rpm --rebuilddb errors too

[root at localhost root]# rpm --rebuilddb
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     688 Header V3 DSA signature: 
BAD, key ID db42a60e
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     688 Header V3 DSA signature: 
BAD, key ID db42a60e
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     688 Header V3 DSA signature: 
BAD, key ID db42a60e

... this continues for a couple of pages
ending with a segmentation fault

I can't seem to reinstall rpm from rpms either
[root at localhost root]# rpm --freshen rpm-4.2-0.69.i386.rpm
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     688 Header V3 DSA signature: 
BAD, key ID db42a60e
warning: rpm-4.2-0.69.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 00000000
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     688 Header V3 DSA signature: 
BAD, key ID db42a60e
[root at localhost root]#

Can someone please help?
Thank you
Vinton