i upgraded from rhl9 to fc1 and had the same problem with yum. thanks to daniel's advice, i found the problem was indeed caused by conflicting libxml2 libraries installed by nusphere rpms for an evaluation copy of a php editor (NuSphere's PhpED). once i removed PHPed, yum was fine. for slightly more info and followup see http://ww1.nusphere.com/support/viewtopic.php?p=2299#2299 -jeff On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Daniel Veillard wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 06:32:32PM +0530, Murali Potla wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 16:38, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > versions of both libxml2 and libxml2-python are same. > > > > # rpm -q libxml2 libxml2-python > > libxml2-2.5.11-1 > > libxml2-python-2.5.11-1 > > > > What could be the other problems ? > > - the shared libs in your path are not the ones from RPM > - your installation got overwritten... > > Daniel > >