Re: FC4

"Alastair McKinley" <amckinley03 googlemail com> wrote:


I just tried to run "yum update" this evening and this happened:


There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

  /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cElementTree.so: undefined symbol:
PyUnicodeUCS4_DecodeUTF8

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:
2.4.1 (#2, May  3 2005, 17:14:18)
[GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)]

If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
the yum faq at:
http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq


Any ideas?

Alastair

   I'm not seeing that on my FC4 box.  I show the following components:


[root bend ~]# rpm -q --whatprovides  /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cElementTree.so python-elementtree-1.2.6-4
[root bend ~]# rpm -q --whatprovides `which python`
python-2.4.3-8.FC4
[root bend ~]# rpm -q --whatprovides `which yum`
yum-2.4.1-1.fc4

and everything works as expected:

[root bend ~]# yum update; date
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
legacy-updates            100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
freshrpms                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
livna                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
jpackage-fc               100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
jpackage-generic          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 366 kB    00:02
jpackage-g: ################################################## 1597/1597
Added 3 new packages, deleted 3 old in 0.98 seconds
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
Tue Sep 19 15:48:14 MDT 2006

Same result on a FC4 x86_64 box.


Since Python is complaining about some sort of unicode symbol, any  chance you have a peculiar language or character set specified?
Cheers,
Dave

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