On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 22:38, R P Herrold wrote: > RHL 7.3, carefully upgraded with backports: > > [root@router root]# sudo rpm -Uvh \ > /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/libxml2-python-2.5.6-2.i386.rpm \ > /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/libxml2-2.5.6-2.i386.rpm > Preparing... ########################################### [100%] > 1:libxml2 ########################################### [ 50%] > 2:libxml2-python ########################################### [100%] > [root@router root]# rpm -Uvh yum-1.97-1.noarch.rpm > Preparing... ########################################### [100%] > 1:yum ########################################### [100%] > [root@router root]# yum update > Traceback (innermost last): > File "/usr/bin/yum", line 22, in ? > import yummain > ImportError: Bad magic number in /usr/share/yum/yummain.pyc > [root@router root]# > > first time I have seen that uncaught exception. > > Probably from a Sig 11 on bad ram, right? no boogs here. <g> run python -V on that system. I bet the pyc files are compiled for the wrong version of python. -sv
