RPM Installation Error During Update

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

Note

The issue described below was reported on environments using CentOS 8 and RHEL 8.

An attempt to run the RPM install command on the host during Alation update may result in the following error:

error: alation-<x.y.z.nnnn>.rpm: headerRead failed: hdr data: BAD, no. of bytes(<17415864>) out of range

Example:

[root@ip-10-15-28-245 install]# sudo rpm -Uvh alation-7.1.0.128409.rpm
error: alation-7.1.0.128409.rpm: headerRead failed: hdr data: BAD, no. of bytes(17415864) out of range
error: alation-7.1.0.128409.rpm cannot be installed

This may point to the outdated RPM version on your environment.

To troubleshoot and continue with the update:

  1. On the Alation host, before using the RPM install command, run the following command:

    sudo yum install rpm -y --skip-broken

  2. Run the RPM install command again. You should be able to proceed with the update.