t.w.i.m.c., in trying to satisfy some tricky dependencies, I installed a very recent version of glibc: glibc-2.3.5-10.3 and (stupidly) both --force (d) and --nodep(ed) it. Now rpm is broke as is yum. Here is what I get when trying to run rpm: [root@comp1 ~]# rpm rpm: /usr/kerberos/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libneon.so.24) rpm: /usr/kerberos/lib/libk5crypto.so.3: no version information available (required by /lib/libssl.so.5) rpm: /usr/kerberos/lib/libkrb5.so.3: no version information available (required by /lib/libssl.so.5) rpm: relocation error: /usr/lib/libneon.so.24: symbol GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE, version gssapi_krb5_2_MIT not defined in file libgssapi_krb5.so.2 with link time reference and here is the yum response: [root@comp1 ~]# yum There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: /lib/libssl.so.5: symbol krb5_cc_get_principal, version krb5_3_MIT not defined in file libkrb5.so.3 with link time reference Please install a package which provides this module, or verify that the module is installed correctly. It's possible that the above module doesn't match the current version of Python, which is: 2.4.1 (#1, May 16 2005, 15:19:29) [GCC 4.0.0 20050512 (Red Hat 4.0.0-5)] If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please send this message to <yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. Any suggestions as to how to manually fix this (since I can't use rpm)? Thanks in advance, Rob Kozar ________________________________________________________ Robert C. Kozar, Ph.D. Director, Evaluation, Measurement, and Program Review UNC Center for Teaching and Learning CB# 3470, 302 Wilson Library The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3470 kozar {at} unc.edu 919.966.1289 ________________________________________________________ Notice of CTL's Confidentiality Policy: All CTL client information is considered confidential; no identifying information will be shared outside CTL without the client's explicit consent. Client information shared among CTL staff for the purpose of enhancing services should always be regarded as privileged.