python error in updated yum FC20

[Barry]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014, at 02:49 PM, Barry wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

You were right. I booted with a rescue disk and fsck found many errors
on the root partition. many Anyway they seemed to be fixable, and on
rebooting, I was able to reinstall yum and then other stuff. 

The only problem is that now I lost my top and bottom panels. This is an
XFCE spin, and I wanted to take a look at it. I liked what I saw, but I
don't really trust the drive. it's an old laptop, and probably not worth
a lot more time. 

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