yum broken :p

[Barbara Pennacchi]

Hello, I wrote almost one month ago to seek help with yum broken by  
updating python. I tried some of the fixes suggested in the replies, but  
to no avail. Then I went into vacation.

Now I'm back. I've read all the back issues of this ml (I receive it in  
the digest format), to see if somebody else had replied on this subject.  
But no one did. Obviously I was in such a hurry to close down the store  
that I forgot to tell those folks that "thankyouverymuch, but it was still  
broken" :)

Alas, I still need to have yum working (so at least I could try upgrading  
from RH9 to FC2 to have a newer python version :-)

To sum it up, both yums, when called upon, keep spitting this:

(from the RH9, with yum 2.0.4-1 and python 2.2.2-26: the one where I tried  
forcing back the former versions then the rpm --rebuilddb -vv)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 22, in ?
    import yummain
  File "yummain.py", line 21, in ?
  File "clientStuff.py", line 25, in ?
  File "pkgaction.py", line 25, in ?
  File "rpmUtils.py", line 9, in ?
  File "urlgrabber.py", line 21, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 101, in ?
    import ftplib
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/ftplib.py", line 68, in ?
    all_errors = (Error, socket.error, IOError, EOFError)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'error'


(from the RH8 upgraded to RH9, with yum 2.0.7-1 and python 2.2.3-26, where  
I simply removed yum, installed new yum and tried the rpm --rebuilddb -vv)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 22, in ?
    import yummain
  File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 22, in ?
    import clientStuff
  File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 25, in ?
    import pkgaction
  File "/usr/share/yum/pkgaction.py", line 25, in ?
    import rpmUtils
  File "/usr/share/yum/rpmUtils.py", line 10, in ?
    from urlgrabber import URLGrabError
  File "/usr/share/yum/urlgrabber.py", line 21, in ?
    import urllib2
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 101, in ?
    import ftplib
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/ftplib.py", line 68, in ?
    all_errors = (Error, socket.error, IOError, EOFError)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'error'

I tried removing yum with rpm -e and reinstalling, I tried forcing  
installation of the prior python version, I tried synching yum version  
with python version. I tried also the rpm --rebuilddb -vv. Nope. Yum is  
still spitting error messages.

Anyone has ideas or pointers ? :(

I feel that somewhere, hidden or simply-not-mentioned-explicitly, there is  
a config file or something similar (environment variables?) that had been  
overlooked by me and by rpm.

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