yum and up2date broken after rpm update

[shmuel siegel]

On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 10:57, Christian Schlaefcke wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> > when I run yum or up2date from console I get:
> > yum:
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 22, in ?
> >     import yummain
> >   File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 22, in ?
> >     import clientStuff
> >   File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 18, in ?
> >     import rpm
> > ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rpmmodule.so: undefined
> > symbol: rpmdsBT
> >
> > up2date:
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 12, in ?
> >     import rpm
> > ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rpmmodule.so: undefined
> > symbol: rpmdsBT
> >
> > What´s the problem? How do I get this "rpmdsBT" resolved?
> 
> I cannot get it running again :-(
> 
> I completely reinstalled up2date, yum and all depending stuff:
> firstboot-1.3.10-1.noarch.rpm
> rhn-applet-2.1.7-1.1.i386.rpm
> system-config-network-1.3.16-1.noarch.rpm
> system-config-network-tui-1.3.16-1.noarch.rpm
> system-config-packages-1.2.10-1.noarch.rpm
> up2date-4.3.11-2.1.1.i386.rpm
> up2date-gnome-4.3.11-2.1.1.i386.rpm
> yum-2.0.6-1.noarch.rpm
> 
> and also:
> rpm-python-4.3.1-0.1.i386.rpm
> 
> I still get the above error. What is missing? Where does this rpmmodule.so
> come from? rpm-python? I this version broken?
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris
> 
I had the same problem and it went away when I installed, using rpm,
everything that started with rpm so I can't tell you what did it.


> rpm-4.3.1-0.1.i386.rpm        rpm-devel-4.3.1-0.1.i386.rpm
> rpm-build-4.3.1-0.1.i386.rpm  rpm-python-4.3.1-0.1.i386.rpm