FC1 upgrade from rh8, but running 2.6.7 kernels
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Fri Jul 9 22:44:44 UTC 2004
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all; Partial duplicate post since no one commented on the
> first post in about 6 hours.
>
> yum seems to have self-destructed with its last update run a couple of
> days ago. It was working fine till after that, but now I have at
> least 2 programs that don't run/compile. Yum doesn't run, returning
> this error:
>
> [root at coyote /]# yum 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/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in ?
> import libxml2mod
> ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined
> symbol: xmlByteConsumed
> [root at coyote /]#
> ---------------
>
> And I will categorically deny doing anything to my python install that
> a yum update didn't do. The only housekeeping I've done in the last
> month was that I discovered I had 2 identically named qt libraries,
> one in the qt3.3 tree, and one in the qt.3.1 tree, so the whole qt-3.1
> tree got nuked.
>
> Addendum, I fixed the grip compile problems from the first post by
> moving copies of the libraries it was looking for from where they
> were to where the *(&%^% makefile was looking for them. Bad dog, no
> bisquit.
>
> What packages do I need to get, update to and/or (re)install to
> restore the yum and/or python problem? I think rpm is still
> working.
Have you tried "yum clean"? I suspect your cache got wonked and yum
doesn't like that.
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