FC1 upgrade from rh8, but running 2.6.7 kernels

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 10 July 2004 18:04, Satish Balay wrote:
>On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> I'm guesing you did 'yum update' instead of 'yum upgrade' to
>>> upgrade to FC1 from RHL9 - hence some of these issues..
>>
>> Actually I did the upgrade from a rh8 install, using the FC1 cd's
>> I'd dld and burnt.
>
>Wierd.. I thought the installer (from CD) removes obsoleted
> packgages.
>
>But now apt appears to have fixed this.
>
>> All this didn't fix yum though, its still doing this:
>> [root at coyote root]# 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 root]#
>>
>> Sigh...
>
>Sorry - I'm stumped here. You could try the following (not that it
> helps much)..
>
>asterix:/home/balay>python
>Python 2.2.3 (#1, Oct 15 2003, 23:33:35)
>[GCC 3.3.1 20030930 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.1-6)] on linux2
>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
> information.
I get:
[root at coyote os9]# python
Python 2.2.3 (#1, Oct 15 2003, 23:33:35)
[GCC 3.3.1 20030930 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.1-6)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information
>>>> import libxml2mod
>
>[no error here]
I get:
>>> import libxml2mod
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined symbol: xmlByteConsumed

This is weirdsville un-incorporated!  And not knowing all that
much about python, my oars aren't in the water at all.

>> Just for giggles & grins, whats the md5sum on your libxml2mod.so?
>> Here its:
>> 001cfb1b9fc59a4adad7e14f82034aee 
>> /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2mod.so
>
>I get the same thing (rpm -V does MD5 check as well)
I thought so, but figured I'd better check under that rock anyway. :)

>001cfb1b9fc59a4adad7e14f82034aee 
> /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2mod.so
>
>Satish

Is there a python mailing list I could throw this at?  Yeah, I know,
google for it... :-)

-- 
Cheers & thanks Satish, Gene
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Please use in that order, starting now.  -Ed Howdershelt, Author
Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, 
Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved.