FC1 upgrade from rh8, but running 2.6.7 kernels

[Rick Stevens]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;  Partial duplicate post since no one commented on the 
> first post in about 6 hours.
> 
> yum seems to have self-destructed with its last update run a couple of 
> days ago.  It was working fine till after that, but now I have at 
> least 2 programs that don't run/compile.  Yum doesn't run, returning 
> this error:
> 
> [root at coyote /]# yum update
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 22, in ?
>     import yummain
>   File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 31, in ?
>     import yumcomps
>   File "/usr/share/yum/yumcomps.py", line 4, in ?
>     import comps
>   File "/usr/share/yum/comps.py", line 5, in ?
>     import libxml2
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in ?
>     import libxml2mod
> ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined 
> symbol: xmlByteConsumed
> [root at coyote /]#
> ---------------
> 
> And I will categorically deny doing anything to my python install that 
> a yum update didn't do.  The only housekeeping I've done in the last 
> month was that I discovered I had 2 identically named qt libraries, 
> one in the qt3.3 tree, and one in the qt.3.1 tree, so the whole qt-3.1 
> tree got nuked.
> 
> Addendum, I fixed the grip compile problems from the first post by 
> moving copies of the libraries it was looking for from where they 
> were to where the *(&%^% makefile was looking for them.  Bad dog, no 
> bisquit.
> 
> What packages do I need to get, update to and/or (re)install to 
> restore the yum  and/or python problem?  I think rpm is still 
> working.

Have you tried "yum clean"?  I suspect your cache got wonked and yum
doesn't like that.
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