<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"> <blockquote>"Alastair McKinley" <amckinley03 googlemail com> wrote: I just tried to run "yum update" this evening and this happened: There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cElementTree.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_DecodeUTF8 Please install a package which provides this module, or verify that the module is installed correctly. It's possible that the above module doesn't match the current version of Python, which is: 2.4.1 (#2, May 3 2005, 17:14:18) [GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to the yum faq at: <a href="http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq">http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq</a> Any ideas? Alastair </blockquote> I'm not seeing that on my FC4 box. I show the following components: [root bend ~]# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cElementTree.so python-elementtree-1.2.6-4 [root bend ~]# rpm -q --whatprovides `which python` python-2.4.3-8.FC4 [root bend ~]# rpm -q --whatprovides `which yum` yum-2.4.1-1.fc4 and everything works as expected: [root bend ~]# yum update; date Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories legacy-updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 freshrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 livna 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 jpackage-fc 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 jpackage-generic 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 366 kB 00:02 jpackage-g: ################################################## 1597/1597 Added 3 new packages, deleted 3 old in 0.98 seconds No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion Tue Sep 19 15:48:14 MDT 2006 Same result on a FC4 x86_64 box. Since Python is complaining about some sort of unicode symbol, any chance you have a peculiar language or character set specified? Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce</blockquote> <div> Hi Dave, Thanks for your help. This is what I've got: <div style="margin-left: 40px;">[root@d6173 alastair]# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cElementTree.so python-elementtree-1.2.6-4 [root@d6173 alastair]# rpm -q --whatprovides `which python` python-2.4.3-8.FC4 [root@d6173 alastair]# rpm -q --whatprovides `which yum` yum-2.4.1-1.fc4 [root@d6173 alastair]# yum update There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cElementTree.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_DecodeUTF8 Please install a package which provides this module, or verify that the module is installed correctly. It's possible that the above module doesn't match the current version of Python, which is: 2.4.1 (#2, May 3 2005, 17:14:18) [GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to the yum faq at: <a href="http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq">http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq</a> </div> I've been using yum with virtually no problems for a year. As far as I know (!) I havent changed any settings related to character sets, in fact I dont even know how to check. What should I do to check this out? Is it possible I have a corrupt shared object file? Thanks again, Alastair P.S. Apologies for the stupid subject line, I sent the email before I wrote anything descritive in there! </div> <blockquote> </blockquote> <pre style="margin: 0em;"> </pre>