FC1 upgrade from rh8, but running 2.6.7 kernels

[Gene Heskett <gene heskett verizon net>]

Greetings all;  Partial duplicate post since no one commented on the 
first post in about 6 hours.

yum seems to have self-destructed with its last update run a couple of 
days ago.  It was working fine till after that, but now I have at 
least 2 programs that don't run/compile.  Yum doesn't run, returning 
this error:

[root coyote /]# yum update
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/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in ?
    import libxml2mod
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined 
symbol: xmlByteConsumed
[root coyote /]#
---------------

And I will categorically deny doing anything to my python install that 
a yum update didn't do.  The only housekeeping I've done in the last 
month was that I discovered I had 2 identically named qt libraries, 
one in the qt3.3 tree, and one in the qt.3.1 tree, so the whole qt-3.1 
tree got nuked.

Addendum, I fixed the grip compile problems from the first post by 
moving copies of the libraries it was looking for from where they 
were to where the *(&%^% makefile was looking for them.  Bad dog, no 
bisquit.

What packages do I need to get, update to and/or (re)install to 
restore the yum  and/or python problem?  I think rpm is still 
working.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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Please use in that order, starting now.  -Ed Howdershelt, Author
Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, 
Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved.