broken yum after latest yum update

[Konstantin Svist]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On 01/12/2007, Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> After checking the system against a clean one and trying to copy some
>> things over, I tried removing the /usr/local install (by hand, since
>> uninstall is not really available with python source). That made
>> everything work.
>> Looking carefully at the filenames, I noticed that there were files
>> /usr/local/libpython2.5.so and /usr/local/libpython2.5.so.1.0 - and sure
>> enough, after bringing them back into /usr/local/lib/ things went back
>> to the broken state.
>>
>> So:
>> * $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set
>> * I explicitly run /usr/bin/python
>> * "import sys; print sys.path" doesn't mention any /usr/local directories
>> * "import <some package that's only available in stock python>" works
>> * "import <some package that's only available in custom python>" doesn't
>> work
>>
>> So how come it seems to use /usr/local/lib/libpython2.5.so?? Where did I
>> go wrong?
>>     
>
> I've pointed out before that your local install of libpython is likely
> the culprit, because the main python executable is linked against it
> and binary modules (such as CPickle.so) depend on it, too. However, I
> did not examine your run-time linker and python path configurations to
> find out how exactly you installed private stuff to /usr/local.
> Obviously, the /usr/local/bin/python binary contains different search
> paths than /usr/bin/python. And with regard to the linker, even
> without using LD_LIBRARY_PATH you can make available libraries in
> /usr/local/lib via ld.so.conf*
>
> You say you run /usr/bin/python, so print the output of "ldd
> /usr/bin/python", please, when /usr/local/lib/libpython2.5.so is
> available. Plus, the output of "python -c 'import sys; print sys.path'
>  ".
>   

$ ldd /usr/bin/python
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00110000)
        libpython2.5.so.1.0 => /usr/local/lib/libpython2.5.so.1.0 
(0x00111000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x007f6000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x007ef000)
        libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00d21000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x007c4000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00669000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0064a000)

$ python -c 'import sys; print sys.path'
['', '/usr/lib/python25.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.5',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Numeric',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gst-0.10',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0']



When /usr/local/lib/libpython2.5.so is NOT available, I get this:
$ ldd /usr/bin/python
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00110000)
        libpython2.5.so.1.0 => /usr/lib/libpython2.5.so.1.0 (0x00111000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x007f6000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x007ef000)
        libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00d21000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x007c4000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00669000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0064a000)