[rhelv6-list] yum issues after latest pyhton update

[Dirk Gfrörer]

Hi,

On 19.06.2012 10:26, Matthias Saou wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 06:59:17 +0000
> "Gabriel S. Craciun"<gcraciun at transfond.ro>  wrote:
>
>>> we've installed yesterdays RHSA-2012:0744-01.
>>>
>>> After this update we cannot run yum anymore. I've created
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833271
>>>
>>> Downgrading python resolves the issue for us.
>>
>> Strange! Updated this morning both python and python libs and yum
>> still  works for me (x86_64).
>
> Same here : Many fully updated RHEL 6.2 x86_64, haven't seen that
> problem either, even after forcing a python update on its own and
> performing quite a few yum operations.
thanks for your help.

It turned out to be LD_LIBRARY_PATH which on some of our servers is set 
for Oracle. It points to $ORACLE_HOME/lib. Unsetting this environment 
variable makes yum working again.

Kind Regards,
Dirk