F8 to rawhide upgrade - yum python mismatch - repeatable

[Andrew Farris]

David Timms wrote:
> Andrew Farris wrote:
>> David Timms wrote:
>>> Next I yum update rpm* yum*, which seemed OK.
>>> After that yum didn't work anymore.
> ...
> 
>> Ok that definitely sounds like an issue that needs looked at deeper.  
>> Upgrading rpm and yum first off should not break yum right away!  
>> Doing just yum works fine for an updated machine as I showed, but 
>> maybe the base versions of rpm and yum for F8 have issues with that 
>> update.
> OK, made that install work again:
> $ rpm -qa yum\* rpm\* python\* sql\*|sort
> python-2.5.1-21.fc9
> python-iniparse-0.2.3-3.fc9
> python-libs-2.5.1-21.fc9
> python-numeric-24.2-6.fc8
> python-setuptools-0.6c7-2.fc8
> python-urlgrabber-3.0.0-3.fc8
> rpm-4.4.2.2-13.fc9
> rpm-libs-4.4.2.2-13.fc9
> rpm-python-4.4.2.2-13.fc9
> rpm -qa|sort
> sqlite-3.5.4-2.fc9
> yum-3.2.8-2.fc8
> yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-4.fc9
> [davidt at localhost ~]$ yum --help
> There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
> required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
> 
>    /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_sqlitecache.so: undefined symbol: 
> g_assertion_message_expr
> 
> 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:
> 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 17 2008, 11:02:11)
> [GCC 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-36)]
> 
> If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
> the yum faq at:
>   http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 #1 SMP Fri Dec 7 15:49:59 
> EST 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> Is this a "silly" on my part / would a bugzilla be appreciated ?
> 
> DaveT
> 

Yes, python-urlgrabber should have been upgraded to fc9 as should the other 
python rpms.  It looks like there could be a requires missing to get those to 
move up to the fc9 version.  Did you see anything about that when updating 
python?  Do you have the yumskipbroken plugin when doing that upgrade?

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