Hi,
Whenever I run Yum, I get the following:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 22, in ?
import yummain
File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 31, in ?
import yumcomps
File "/usr/share/yum/yumcomps.py", line 4, in ?
import comps
File "/usr/share/yum/comps.py", line 5, in ?
import libxml2
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in ?
import libxml2mod
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined symbol: xmlXIncludeProcessFlags
I also get the ImportError if I try to import libxml2 from the python console.
I've tried using rpm to uninstall and re-install the libxml2, libxml2-python, and yum rpms which I downloaded from my nearest fedora core 2 mirror, but still the same problem. rpm -q shows my libxml2 & libxml2-python to be versions as follows: libxml2-2.6.8-1 libxml2-python-2.6.8-1.
It's possible that some manual flailing around with downloaded install scripts I did very late last night overwrote the libraries from the rpm's, but in that case wouldn't the libxml2 rpm un/re-installs have fixed the problem? Any ideas on how to go diagnosing from here?
Cheers,
CB.
To anyone else who may have this problem, I managed to solve it by searching for all instances of libxml2.so throughout my file system. I discovered several in usr/local/lib as well as usr/lib, and moved the /usr/local/lib ones out of the way (assuming that the /usr/local/lib ones were added by non-rpm means). That fixed yum (though it may break something else).
Probably all obvious to most readers of this list.
