On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 12:31 +0000, Giacomo Shimmings wrote: > Hi there - I have hosed my install of Yum on my Fedora Core 6 box > during the upgrade process to Core 8 using this guide: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq#head-5732a9fb352ab548e57075669942e1bd69028dcc > > Once i got to the stage where I was running the yum upgrade command, I > got these errors: > > Transaction Check Error: > file /usr/lib/libmp4v2.so.0.0.0 conflicts between attempted installs > of libmp4v2-1.5.0.1-5.fc8 and libmp4v2_0-1.25-2.fc8 > file /usr/lib/libbeecrypt.so.6.4.0 from install of beecrypt-4.1.2-13 > conflicts with file from package libbeecrypt6-4.1.2-10.1_14.fc4.at > file /usr/lib/libao.so.2.1.3 from install of libao-0.8.8-2.fc8 > conflicts with file from package libao2-0.8.6-0_3.fc4.at > file /etc/X11/XvMCConfig from install of libXvMC-1.0.4-3.fc8 > conflicts > with file from package libXvMCW-0.9.3-4.fc4.at > > So, being the smartypants I am I did this and removed them: > > [root@192 ~]# rpm -e --nodeps libmp4v2 > > [root@192 ~]# rpm -e --nodeps beecrypt > > [root@192 ~]# rpm -e --nodeps libao > > [root@192 ~]# rpm -e --nodeps libXvMC > > I can hear you all collectively groan. > > Running the yum command again, I get this: > > [root@192 mythtv]# yum upgrade > There was a problem importing one of the Python modules > required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: > > libbeecrypt.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > directory > > 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: > 2.4.4 (#1, Oct 23 2006, 13:58:00) > [GCC 4.1.1 20061011 (Red Hat 4.1.1-30)] > > If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to > the yum faq at: > http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq > > Reading the faq, I ran these python commands to show what the error > message is: > > [root@192 mythtv]# python > Python 2.4.4 (#1, Oct 23 2006, 13:58:00) > [GCC 4.1.1 20061011 (Red Hat 4.1.1-30)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> import yum > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 20, > in ? > import rpm > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rpm/__init__.py", line 7, > in ? > from _rpm import * > ImportError: libbeecrypt.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such > file or directory > > It would seem rpm and rpmbuild are similally hosed: > > [root@192 mythtv]# rpm > rpm: error while loading shared libraries: libbeecrypt.so.6: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory > [root@192 mythtv]# rpmbuild > bash: rpmbuild: command not found > > Can anyone help me fix yum or should I use the DVD of Core 8 to update > the system at this point? > 1. NEVER NEVER NEVER use --nodeps unless you REALLY know what you're doing with them 2. update to f8. You need to anyway. FC6 is not getting updates anymore. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
