FC1 upgrade from rh8, 2.6.7 kernels

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings all;

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 at 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 at coyote /]#
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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 3.1 tree 
got nuked.

Then, grip-3.0.3 also quit returning this error:
[root at coyote /]# grip
grip: relocation error: /root/kde3.2/lib/libgdk_imlib.so.1: undefined 
symbol: png_create_read_struct

So I grabbed grip-3.2.0.tar.gz but it fails to build with this error:
libtool: link: cannot find the library 
`/usr/local/lib/libgobject-2.0.la'
make[2]: *** [grip] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/grip-3.2.0/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/grip-3.2.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[root at coyote grip-3.2.0]#

Now for this last error, I do have the file, located 
in /root/kde3.2/lib/libgobject-2.0.la:
/root/kde3.2/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:

[root at coyote grip-3.2.0]# ls -l /root/kde3.2/lib/libgobject-2.0.*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    896 Feb  3 
23:20 /root/kde3.2/lib/libgobject-2.0.la
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root root     25 Feb  3 
23:20 /root/kde3.2/lib/libgobject-2.0.so -> libgobject-2.0.so.0.200.3
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root root     25 Feb  3 
23:20 /root/kde3.2/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 -> 
libgobject-2.0.so.0.200.3
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 264439 Feb  3 
23:20 /root/kde3.2/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0.200.3

my ld.so.conf:
/root/kde3.2/lib
/usr/kerberos/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/local/lib
/usr/lib/qt2/lib
/usr/lib/mysql
/usr/lib/sane
/usr/lib/lib

and ldconfig has been many times run.

And:
[root at coyote grip-3.2.0]# echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/root/kde3.2/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib
[root at coyote grip-3.2.0]#

Doesn't that cover all the bases?

What packages do I need to get, and reinstall to restore these missing 
libraries?  Particularly for the yum  or python problem.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. 
Soap, ballot, jury, and ammo.
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.