On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 15:21 -0500, Mike Detwiler wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using yum to successfully update the FC3 installation on my > Dell laptop for a few months, but now I've run into some problems. I was > running yum a couple of days ago, and one of the packages to be updated > was python-2.3.4-13.1. After I told yum it was OK to update the packages > it had selected for update, I walked away for a few minutes only to > return and find all sorts of unintelligible characters scrolling across > the terminal as if yum had gotten itself into some sort of infinite > loop. I couldn't stop things with Ctrl-C or Ctrl-D, so I closed the > Gnome terminal window. Now when I try to run yum, I get the following > error message: > > /usr/bin/python: error while loading shared libraries: > libpython2.3.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: Error 40 > > I'm still not much more than a novice Linux user, so any suggestions > would be greatly appreciated. Try downloading python-2.3.4-13.1 and installing it with: rpm -Uvh --force python-2.3.4-13.1* Yum is written in python so if the python upgrade borked than that's obviously bad. Bob -- Bob Kashani http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bobk/garnome
