Up2date failing or rpm broken

[Gerry Tool]

shmuel siegel wrote:
> Can I get some advice on how to fix this.
> 
> On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 17:37, shmuel siegel wrote:
> 
>>After a massive update, approximately 50 packages, up2date no longer
>>works. Get the following error message
>>
>>
>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 12, in ?
>>    import rpm
>>ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rpmmodule.so: undefined symbol: rpmdsBT
>>
>>in addition running rpm -q rpm gives 
>>
>>package rpm is not installed
>>
>>
Download the latest rpm from a development directory on one of the 
mirrors and install it with rpm -ivh.

This happened to me also and this was the fix I used.

Gerry Tool