Hosed yum

[Cream[DONut]]

I ran into this problem aswell, and fixed it by installing python, rpm, 
and yum from the development tree.


[root at DONut ~]# rpm -qa |grep --regexp="yum" --regexp="rpm" 
--regexp="python"
gnome-python2-2.6.0-4
dbus-python-0.22-12
rpm-python-4.3.3-8
gnome-python2-bonobo-2.6.0-4
redhat-rpm-config-8.0.32-2
python-2.4-3
libxml2-python-2.6.16-5
gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-2.6.0-4
rpm-4.3.3-8
mod_python-3.1.3-7
rpm-build-4.3.3-8
gnome-python2-canvas-2.6.0-4
rpm-libs-4.3.3-8
rpm-devel-4.3.3-8
yum-2.1.12-2
python-devel-2.4-3


Per Bjornsson wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 17:19 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
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>>Now when I try to run yum i get:
>>
>>[rodd at trevally packages]$ sudo yum update
>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 6, in ?
>>    import yummain
>>  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 23, in ?
>>    import yum
>>  File "__init__.py", line 21, in ?
>>ImportError: No module named rpm
>>[rodd at trevally packages]$
>>    
>>
>
>I recognize this. I ran into it a little while back when trying to
>upgrade a box that had too little disk space to do it all at once. Turns
>out that somewhere in the RPM/yum stack there's an SELinux dependency
>that shows up at runtime. I don't really know what's going on, but at
>least for me it went away after updating libselinux. (Of course, since
>both yum and up2date use the rpm Python bindings and a simple "import
>rpm" in yum is what dies, well, they're both hosed at the moment so
>you'll have to download and 'rpm -Uvh' that package manually.)
>
>Turns out we're not the only ones to hit this, it's in bugzilla:
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144446
>
>Good luck,
>Per
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