broken yum after latest yum update
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 02:21:59 UTC 2007
On 30/11/2007, Konstantin Svist wrote:
>
> After updating my F8 install with "yum update" I can't run yum anymore.
I wonder why you chose a subject line like that when you broke Python
yourself? You even found the cause of it, didn't you?
> Here's the error I get:
>
> """
> There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
> required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
>
> /usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/cPickle.so: undefined symbol:
> PyUnicodeUCS4_DecodeRawUnicodeEscape
That's provided by libpython (python-libs package).
> I've tried reinstalling python from fedora rpm (same version) - to no avail.
> Another clue: I've installed a self-compiled python in /usr/local.
Most likely you override LD_LIBRARY_PATH with /usr/local and your
self-built libpython in /usr/local/lib.
> However, I was careful to not make it conflict with the built-in
> version:
Apparently not careful enough. ;)
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