Yum did it again

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 07:22 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> I just followed the instructions on the legacy web page on howto setup yum to use the legacy repos.
> 
> I have some stuff built from tarballs, like bleeding edge kernels cups, gimp etc, so those got added to the exclude line.
> 
> Unforch, I forgot about the libxml2 stuffs.  So, after yum had updated
> several dozen packages including libxlm2, I'm back to square one with 
> this error:
> root at coyote dlds-rpms]# yum check-update
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 22, in ?
>     import yummain
>   File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 31, in ?
>     import yumcomps
>   File "/usr/share/yum/yumcomps.py", line 4, in ?
>     import comps
>   File "/usr/share/yum/comps.py", line 5, in ?
>     import libxml2
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in ?
>     import libxml2mod
> ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined symbol: xmlNewDocPI
> 
> Obviously I'm missing a point here because historically I have had to
> forceably reinstall the older versions of libxml2 here several times
> before to get yum to work again.
> 
> So what is this point I'm missing?  
> 
> I really would like to be able to use yum, but the constant libxml2 
> problems are making it impossible to use without an exclude line 
> that includes libxml2*.

what version of fedora?
what version of yum?
what version of libxml2 and libxml2-python are installed?

-sv