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

[Paul Howarth]

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.