python error in updated yum FC20

[Barry]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014, at 02:25 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:14:28 -0400
> Barry <txscope at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Barry wrote:
> > > I installed Fedora 20 yesterday, and after the installation was
> > > done, I installed a few packages successfully and then updated all
> > > the packages, and then shut down 
> > > 
> > > Today when I first turned on the machine, I tried installing the
> > > remaining stuff I want, and I got a python error, to wit:
> > > 
> > >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/i18n.py", line 1
> > > SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xfb' in file
> > > /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/i18n.py on line 2, but no
> > > encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for
> > > details
> > > 
> > > I took a look at i18n.py, and it's a binary file, which couldn't be
> > > right. 
> > > 
> > > There's no i18n.pyo, but there is a i18n.pyc. 
> > > 
> > > It seems to me I might be able to reinstall python from the rpm,
> > > but I'm not sure about this.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for any help
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > I should have said reinstall yum, and I tried that after finding
> > yum-3.4.3-152.fc20.noarch.rpm but rpm failed to unpack the archive. 
> 
> Can you provide the full output from the reinstall?
> 
> It does sound like there's some disk corruption going on. :( 
> 
> That i18n.py definitely should not be a binary. 
> 
> kevin
> -- 

Thanks, and sure:

# rpm -ivh --replacepkgs yum-3.4.3-152.fc20.noarch.rpm
Preparing...                                                  
################\
################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
   1:yum-3.4.3-152.fc20                                       
   ################\
################# [100%]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum\
/igroups.pyc: cpio: rename failed - Input/output error
error: yum-3.4.3-152.fc20.noarch: install failed

Then, I wanted to check the file attr:

# lsattr /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/igroups.pyc
lsattr: Input/output error while trying to stat
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-package\
s/yum/igroups.pyc


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