Hosed yum

[Per Bjornsson]

On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 17:19 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
...
> 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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Per Bjornsson <perbj at stanford.edu>
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University