On Monday 29 January 2007 09:41, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Dave Stevens wrote: > > [root@localhost downloads]# rpm --verify yum > > S.5....T c /etc/yum.conf > > > > I don't know what to make of this > > That just means that your yum.conf file has been modified. Perhaps > you changed some settings there? I don't think that's causing the > problem you're having. > > > [root@localhost downloads]# yum -d 10 > > There was a problem importing one of the Python modules > > required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: > > > > No module named cElementTree > > > > 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: > > 2.4.3 (#1, Oct 23 2006, 14:19:45) > > [GCC 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1)] > > Okay, perhaps it'd be good to check the versions you have of yum, > python, and python-elementtree. What's the output of: > > $ rpm -q python python-elementtree yum [root@localhost tmp]# rpm -q python python-elementtree yum python-2.4.3-9.FC5 python-elementtree-1.2.6-7.fc3.rf yum-2.6.1-0.fc5 [root@localhost tmp]# > > There are a few entries in bugzilla with this error, one of them was > caused by a python-elementtree update from RPMforge, something not > provided by Fedora. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222012 well, I recently enabled rpmforge as a repo so presumably that's where it came from. can I use rpm to remove and reinstall yum? d -- "The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment." -- Herman Daly, former senior economist at the World Bank.