FC4

[Alastair McKinley]

On 9/20/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>
> Alastair McKinley wrote:
> > On 9/20/06, David G. Miller <dave at davenjudy.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> "Alastair McKinley" <amckinley03 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Hi Dave,
> >> >
> >> >Thanks for your help.  This is what I've got:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >[root at d6173 alastair]# rpm -q --whatprovides
> >> >/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cElementTree.so
> >> >python-elementtree-1.2.6-4
> >> >[root at d6173 alastair]# rpm -q --whatprovides `which python`
> >> >python-2.4.3-8.FC4
> >> >[root at d6173 alastair]# rpm -q --whatprovides `which yum`
> >> >yum-2.4.1-1.fc4
> >> >[root at d6173 alastair]# yum 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/cElementTree.so: undefined symbol:
> >> >PyUnicodeUCS4_DecodeUTF8
> >> >
> >> >Please install a package which provides this module, or
> >> >verify that the module is installed correctly.
> >> >
> >> >It's possible that the above module doesn't match the
> >> >current version of Python, which is:
> >> >2.4.1 (#2, May  3 2005, 17:14:18)
> >> >[GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)]
> >> >
> >> >If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
> >> >the yum faq at:
> >> >  http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >I've been using yum with virtually no problems for a year.  As far as
> I
> >> know
> >> >(!) I havent changed any settings related to character sets, in fact I
> >> dont
> >> >even know how to check.
> >> >What should I do to check this out?
> >> >
> >> >Is it possible I have a corrupt shared object file?
> >> >
> >> >Thanks again,
> >> >
> >> >Alastair
> >> >
> >> >P.S. Apologies for the stupid subject line, I sent the email before I
> >> wrote
> >> >anything descritive in there!
> >> >
> >> Sorry about the wild goose chase on the character set thing.  Its
> >> something changeable through an environment variable so its something
> >> that could easily be changed.  At least that would explain the sudden
> >> change in behavior.  After I pursued this line for a little while it
> >> dawned on me that the version of python being reported doesn't make
> >> sense.
> >>
> >> It looks like the copy of python that's in yum's path has regressed to
> >> something REALLY old.  rpm -q showed python-2.4.3-8.FC4 but yum is
> >> complaining about a problem with 2.4.1 compiled with gcc 3.2.2.  When I
> >> run python from the command line on my FC4 box, I get:
> >>
> >> [root at bend ~]# python
> >> Python 2.4.3 (#1, Jun 13 2006, 16:41:18)
> >> [GCC 4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8)] on linux2
> >>
> >> The version number that python reports matches the version number for
> >> the python rpm.  Also, the gcc version python was compiled with matches
> >> the current version of gcc for FC4.
> >>
> >> Try running python (if it will run) from the command line and see what
> >> it gives for a start-up message (ctrl-D to exit the python CLI).  If it
> >> matches the error message you're getting then at least things are
> >> consistent and you may need to just re-install python.  Not sure how
> >> your system got into this state.  If you get the same thing I got
> >> (matches what rpm says is the installed version) then something really
> >> strange is going on.  yum is somehow picking up an old copy of python.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Dave
> >>
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> >
> >
> >
> > Ok I've still got a problem I dont quite understand!
> >
> > So i did this:
> >
> > rpm -i --force ~alastair/python-2.4.3-8.FC4.i386.rpm
> >
> > However, python still does this:
> >
> > [alastair at d6173 sh]$ python Python 2.4.1 (#2, May  3 2005, 17:14:18)
> > [GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] on linux2
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>>>
>
> So which python is first in your PATH?
>
> $ which python
>
> > So the only thing that looks like it has been changed is the symlink
> > /usr/bin/python2
> >
> > Is there another rpm command I should be using for this?
>
> Was the commercial app that you believe to be the culprit installed
> using RPM?
>
> Paul.
>
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Hi Paul,

[alastair at d6173 alastair]# which python
/usr/bin/python
[alastair at d6173 alastair]#

The App I believe to be the culprit was installed with a shell script.  I
didnt look at it closely and now its disappeared!

Any ideas on how I can bring python back to life?

Best regards and thanks,

Alastair
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