up2date: ImportError: /lib/libssl.so.4: undefined symbol: krb5_cc_get_principal

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Wed Mar 2 01:13:14 UTC 2005


Peter Connolly wrote:
> After upgrading to RedHat Fedora Core 3, I run into the following
> problem with up2date after filling in the 'su' password prompt:
> 
> - - - - - 
> [peterc at popeye ~]$ up2date
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 27, in ?
>     from up2date_client import repoDirector
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoDirector.py", line 5, in ?
>     import rhnChannel
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnChannel.py", line 10, in ?
>     import up2dateAuth
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 5, in ?
>     import rpcServer
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 22, in ?
>     from rhn import rpclib
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhn/__init__.py", line 11, in ?
>     import rpclib
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 14, in ?
>     import transports
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 24, in ?
>     import connections
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhn/connections.py", line 14, in ?
>     import SSL
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhn/SSL.py", line 15, in ?
>     from OpenSSL import SSL, crypto
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/OpenSSL/__init__.py", line 11, in ?
>     import rand, crypto, SSL, tsafe
> ImportError: /lib/libssl.so.4: undefined symbol: krb5_cc_get_principal
> [peterc at popeye ~]$
> - - - - - 
> 
> I tried the approach of removing the krb lib entry from /etc/ld.so.conf:
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-January/msg00831.html
> 
> but still get this error.  I also tried upgrading 'up2date' to
> up2date-4.3.69-1, the latest version that I could find.
> 
> Any ideas?  Thanks!
> pc
> 

I upgraded rpm-python and up2date started working again. This might not 
be your problem. It does not seem to relate to the errors though.

Jim



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