Greetings; I reinstalled yum 2.0.7 by force, added a few excludes to the yum.conf, and it downloaded and updated about 90 packages, including the whole kit, devel and python, for libxml2. Now, yum won't run again, nor will any other python/libxml2 using program because there are new things in the lib that nothing else knows about: [root@coyote root]# yum update Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 22, in ? import yummain File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 31, in ? import yumcomps File "/usr/share/yum/yumcomps.py", line 4, in ? import comps File "/usr/share/yum/comps.py", line 5, in ? import libxml2 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in ? import libxml2mod ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined symbol: xmlNewDocPI In /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages I now have: [root@coyote site-packages]# ls -l libxml2* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 347678 Oct 27 17:18 libxml2mod.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 911 Oct 27 17:18 libxml2mod.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 263088 Oct 27 17:18 libxml2mod.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 308578 Oct 27 17:18 libxml2.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 525102 Oct 29 02:49 libxml2.pyc So how do I get things matched up again so everything (up2date, yum, gftp, etc all works again? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.28% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.