On Mon, Jul 28, 2014, at 02:25 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:14:28 -0400 > Barry <txscope@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Barry wrote: > > > I installed Fedora 20 yesterday, and after the installation was > > > done, I installed a few packages successfully and then updated all > > > the packages, and then shut down > > > > > > Today when I first turned on the machine, I tried installing the > > > remaining stuff I want, and I got a python error, to wit: > > > > > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/i18n.py", line 1 > > > SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xfb' in file > > > /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/i18n.py on line 2, but no > > > encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for > > > details > > > > > > I took a look at i18n.py, and it's a binary file, which couldn't be > > > right. > > > > > > There's no i18n.pyo, but there is a i18n.pyc. > > > > > > It seems to me I might be able to reinstall python from the rpm, > > > but I'm not sure about this. > > > > > > Thanks for any help > > > > > > > > > > I should have said reinstall yum, and I tried that after finding > > yum-3.4.3-152.fc20.noarch.rpm but rpm failed to unpack the archive. > > Can you provide the full output from the reinstall? > > It does sound like there's some disk corruption going on. :( > > That i18n.py definitely should not be a binary. > > kevin > -- Thanks, and sure: # rpm -ivh --replacepkgs yum-3.4.3-152.fc20.noarch.rpm Preparing... ################\ ################# [100%] Updating / installing... 1:yum-3.4.3-152.fc20 ################\ ################# [100%] error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum\ /igroups.pyc: cpio: rename failed - Input/output error error: yum-3.4.3-152.fc20.noarch: install failed Then, I wanted to check the file attr: # lsattr /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/igroups.pyc lsattr: Input/output error while trying to stat /usr/lib/python2.7/site-package\ s/yum/igroups.pyc -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/help/overview_quotes.html -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
