On Mon, Jul 28, 2014, at 02:49 PM, Barry wrote: > 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 > > You were right. I booted with a rescue disk and fsck found many errors on the root partition. many Anyway they seemed to be fixable, and on rebooting, I was able to reinstall yum and then other stuff. The only problem is that now I lost my top and bottom panels. This is an XFCE spin, and I wanted to take a look at it. I liked what I saw, but I don't really trust the drive. it's an old laptop, and probably not worth a lot more time. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service -- 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
