[FC4] SOLVED: RPM doesn't work after upgrade with odd error message

[Gilbert Sebenste]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Paul Howarth wrote:

> Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
>> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> 
>>> Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
>>>> Hey gang,
>>>> 
>>>> Just did a "yum -y update" a few hours ago on a machine with FC4.
>>>> After that, whenever I type in yun (anything), I get:
>>>> 
>>>>> yum -y update
>>>> 
>>>> There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
>>>> required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
>>>> 
>>>> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rpm/_rpmmodule.so: undefined symbol: 
>>>> matchpathcon_init
>>>> 
>>>> Please install a package which provides this module, or
>>>> verify that the module is installed correctly.
>>> 
>>> Which versions of "rpm", "rpm-python", and "libselinux" do you have?
>>> 
>>> My last FC4 box has:
>>> $ rpm -q libselinux rpm rpm-python
>>> libselinux-1.23.11-1.1
>>> rpm-4.4.1-23
>>> rpm-python-4.4.1-23
>>> 
>>> Paul.
>> 
>> Hi Paul,
>> 
>> That is exactly what I have (sorry I didn't provide that when I posted).
>> I'm not sure what to make of this.
>
> Does "strings /lib/libselinux.so.1 | grep matchpath" produce this output?
>
> matchpathcon_init
> set_matchpathcon_printf
> set_matchpathcon_invalidcon
> set_matchpathcon_flags
> matchpathcon_filespec_eval
> matchpathcon_filespec_destroy
> matchpathcon_checkmatches
> matchpathcon_filespec_add
> matchpathcon_index
> matchpathcon
> matchpathcon_filespec_eval
> matchpathcon_filespec_add
>
>> Also, on one of my machines, rpm-build won't update:
>> 
>> Updating:
>>  rpm-build               i386       4.4.1-23         updates-released  515 
>> k

I had to do this to get RPM and Yum to work:

rm /var/lib/rpm/__*
rpm --rebuilddb

Looks like my db files got corrupted. D'oh!

That fixed RPM and Yum for me.

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