On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 11:34 +0530, Manilal K M wrote: > Hi all, > I have been using YUM to update my Fedora Core 3 server for the past > two years and recently noticed a abnormal behaviour when running yum > as a normal user. When I logged in as super user (root), there are no > issues. But when I logged in as normal user I noticed the following > errors. I am also using a FC4 server but there are no issues. > > [root@cobra ~]# yum --version > 2.2.2 > [root@cobra ~]# logout > > [manilalk@cobra yum]$ yum --version > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/yum", line 6, in ? > import yummain > ImportError: No module named yummain > [manilalk@cobra yum]$ > > What could be the problem? Is it due to permission issues? > I am using Fedora Core 3 with yum-2.2.2 and python-2.4.3-8.FC4 > > Did anyone else have the same issue? > yum was built for python 2.3 in fc3 - when you upgraded python to 2.4.3 the yum modules aren't accessible anymore. upgrade your yum to yum 2.4.X or the package from fc4 and I think you'll find it works better. -sv