FC4

[David G. Miller]

"Alastair McKinley" <amckinley03 at googlemail.com> wrote:

>I just tried to run "yum update" this evening and this happened:
>
>
>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
>
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Alastair
>  
>
I'm not seeing that on my FC4 box.  I show the following components:

[root at bend ~]# rpm -q --whatprovides 
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cElementTree.so
python-elementtree-1.2.6-4
[root at bend ~]# rpm -q --whatprovides `which python`
python-2.4.3-8.FC4
[root at bend ~]# rpm -q --whatprovides `which yum`
yum-2.4.1-1.fc4

and everything works as expected:

[root at bend ~]# yum update; date
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
legacy-updates            100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
freshrpms                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
livna                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
jpackage-fc               100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
jpackage-generic          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 366 kB    00:02
jpackage-g: ################################################## 1597/1597
Added 3 new packages, deleted 3 old in 0.98 seconds
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
Tue Sep 19 15:48:14 MDT 2006

Same result on a FC4 x86_64 box.

Since Python is complaining about some sort of unicode symbol, any 
chance you have a peculiar language or character set specified?

Cheers,
Dave

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