Gene Heskett wrote: > 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: Gene: Yum is not a magical tool that will fix your machine, especially if you don't shun using "force" to install or remove packages or individual files. In fact, since yum relies on your rpmdb to figure out the state of things, it is possible to confuse your system even more by running it, if things were out of whack in the first place. > [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 It relies on /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2, which provides that symbol. > 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 The timestamps suggest that these files were modified recently, meaning that you have probably done something evil to libxml2 or libxml2-python, which resulted in its general brokenness. > So how do I get things matched up again so everything (up2date, yum, gftp, > etc all works again? You ask these questions on a fedora support list, not here. This list deals with yum, not with undoing the actions of admins that resulted in things going haywire. Creative mixing and matching of things installed from fringe repositories, building stuff from tarballs, and then using brute force to accomplish certain tasks will never fail to result in an unusable system. Regards, --icon
