Joshua Jensen deliriously scratched out the following message on Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 12:54:51PM -0500: > That is your problem. A Linux distro is made to work *together*... you > upgrade to a version outside of the disto and you just might find that > some things no longer work. You have probably broken several other > things that require the official FC3 version of python. Yeah, that's true. And its also true that you can find some fc4-level rpms available in some of the repositories. I've been enticed into upgrading my fc2 python to 2.4 and my yum to 4.2. It means that occasionally I have to back out an update because things have broken. > If you must stay with your "one off" version of python, try rebuilding > yum from source rpm. That could very well fix your problem. 'No module named yum' is not good. In this case I've picked up the latest yum package for fc2 I could find and downgraded yum. Then in some cases I've had to also go get python-elementtree, python-celementtree and url-grabber. uhh... 'rpm -Uvh --old-package http://repository/old-package.rpm' On the other hand I had another box that upgraded beyond fc2 like that and it was missing python-elementtree. I knew it was for python2.4 since the error message said that python2.4 was the current version (thanks for putting that detail in the error message). I did have the most current version of python-elementtree I could find installed but naturally it was installed under python2.3. So I tried soft linking /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/elementtree to /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/elementtree. Worked! So is there an appreciable difference between the 2.3 and 2.4 versions of python-elementtree? Will the aliens come down and make me reinstall because this is screwing up hyperspace for everybody? > JOshua > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 03:25:40PM -0800, John Gordon wrote: > > Hi, all, > > > > An update to my fedora 3 core server at some point caused yum to fail to > > start any longer. Here's the error output I get when I enter the command, > > "yum": <snip> > -- > Joshua Jensen > joshua@xxxxxxxx > "If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?" Dana Bourgeois "Who knows where thoughts really come from? They just sort of appear." --Empire Records
