On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Barbara Pennacchi wrote: > Hello yummers. > > (If all this may be a FAQ, forgive me: I tried looking in the ML archives > but, without a chance to search it, takes tooo looong to find any relevant > email...) > > I'm not yet close to pulling my hair (besides, it's too short to be > pulled!), but I'm really annoyed as hell. > > I used yum 2.0.4-1 to upgrade a RH8 box to RH9 and to keep updated another > RH9 box when it went EOL. No trouble in both boxes. > > Then I updated python from 2.2.2-26 to 2.2.3-26 with a plain rpm -Uvh. And > Yum stopped working. Tried updating yum to 2.0.7-1. Duh. Still broken. Why not roll back to the python-2.2.2-26 version. That is the tested and known to work configuration. Obviously there is some incompatibally with the newer versions. > rpm -qa \*python\* gives: > rpm-python-4.2-0.69 > python-2.2.3-26 <---(that's the python that broke yum, > previously it was python-2.2.2-26) There's your answer. :-) > python-optik-1.4-2 > libxml2-python-2.5.4-3.rh9 > mod_python-3.0.1-4 > > I did a rpm -V yum python and even a rpm -V -vv yum python but all files > seem to be OK. except that yum keeps NOT working. > > Tried also rpm -rebuilddb (as suggested in Fedora Legacy's ML) > > Tried (on the RH9 box) to force the reinstall of python2.2.2-26, too. > > I have in /usr/bin/ three matches for python*: > /usr/bin/python > /usr/bin/python2 (symlink to the first) > /usr/bin/python2.2 > > Tried editing all references in /usr/bin/yum and/or /usr/share/yum/*.py > from #!/usr/bin/python to one of the other 2 entries. > > Tried also rpm -e yum, delete /usr/share/yum and /var/cache/yum and > reinstall it back. Nuthin'. Still the same ol'spittle as above. > > The only thing I didn't try (yet) was to move the symlink of /usr/bin/ > python2 from /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python2.2 I do not understand why you eould do thisd but.... > Any suggestions and hints would be appreciated. See above. Tom
