"Alastair McKinley" <amckinley03@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Dave,
Thanks for your help. This is what I've got:
[root@d6173 alastair]# rpm -q --whatprovides
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cElementTree.so
python-elementtree-1.2.6-4
[root@d6173 alastair]# rpm -q --whatprovides `which python`
python-2.4.3-8.FC4
[root@d6173 alastair]# rpm -q --whatprovides `which yum`
yum-2.4.1-1.fc4
[root@d6173 alastair]# yum update
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
I've been using yum with virtually no problems for a year. As far as I know
(!) I havent changed any settings related to character sets, in fact I dont
even know how to check.
What should I do to check this out?
Is it possible I have a corrupt shared object file?
Thanks again,
Alastair
P.S. Apologies for the stupid subject line, I sent the email before I wrote
anything descritive in there!
Sorry about the wild goose chase on the character set thing. Its
something changeable through an environment variable so its something
that could easily be changed. At least that would explain the sudden
change in behavior. After I pursued this line for a little while it
dawned on me that the version of python being reported doesn't make sense.
It looks like the copy of python that's in yum's path has regressed to
something REALLY old. rpm -q showed python-2.4.3-8.FC4 but yum is
complaining about a problem with 2.4.1 compiled with gcc 3.2.2. When I
run python from the command line on my FC4 box, I get:
[root@bend ~]# python
Python 2.4.3 (#1, Jun 13 2006, 16:41:18)
[GCC 4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8)] on linux2
The version number that python reports matches the version number for
the python rpm. Also, the gcc version python was compiled with matches
the current version of gcc for FC4.
Try running python (if it will run) from the command line and see what
it gives for a start-up message (ctrl-D to exit the python CLI). If it
matches the error message you're getting then at least things are
consistent and you may need to just re-install python. Not sure how
your system got into this state. If you get the same thing I got
(matches what rpm says is the installed version) then something really
strange is going on. yum is somehow picking up an old copy of python.
Cheers,
Dave
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