>Message: 1 >Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:56:33 -0600 >From: swordsaintzero <swordsaintzero@xxxxxxxxx> >Subject: [Yum] Sefault >To: yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Message-ID: <43E45021.4020405@xxxxxxxxx> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >I have recently inherited a cent-os machine with a non functioning yum >after the abrubt departure of my new employers previous admin. I have a >few ideas but thought I would post the symptoms without muddying the >water with my suppositions. > >If I start python from the command line and do an import on any module I >can think of (os, sys, math) it works fine. If I try "import yum" python >segfaults instantly. If I start yum from the command line directly, of >course it segafaults straight away. > > Does anyone have any further testing I can do, some method to turn on >debug mode if you will? >If anyone wants the output of strace -o, or has any ideas at all please >feel free to speak up. > >My most sincere thanks in advance, > >-James > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 08:05:57 +0100 >From: Michael Lang <Michael.Lang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: Re: [Yum] Sefault >To: yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Message-ID: <20060204080557.d0y3ub9j7k04ko08@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format="flowed" > > > > > >Hi > >as yum uses rpmlib heavly it sounds like your package and library doesnt match >up can you do a rpm -q for the packages ? > >rpm-python-4.3.3-11_nonptl >yum-2.4.0-1.centos4 >rpm-4.3.3-11_nonptl > >Centos4.2 Release Versions working >Greetz mIke > > What I currently have installed: rpm-python 4.2.3-21 rpm-4.2.3-21_nonptl yum-2.0.8-1.centos.7 Interestingly enough the centos 3.4 repository has rpm-python version -24 and rpm version -24 listed in the http repository of the mirror im looking at. Would that small of a version difference cause a segfault?