Hello All, I've got a redhat 5.5 machine which is supposedly up-to-date according to RHN (yum-3.2.22-26.el5, python-2.4.3-27.el5). When I try to do anything with yum, I get the following error: --- There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: /usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-dynload/_weakref.so: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory 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: 2.4.3 (#1, Jun 11 2009, 14:09:37) [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)] If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to the yum faq at: http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq --- RHN verifies both the python and yum packages as correct, and as near as I can tell the version of yum I have (yum-3.2.22-26.el5) should work fine with the version of python (python-2.4.3-27.el5). What's more, I have a separate brand new redhat machine with exactly the same versions of the software installed, and yum works fine on that machine. If I import the yum library into python myself I get a segmentation fault: --- # python -vv import zipimport # builtin import site # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.4/site.pyc import os # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.4/os.pyc import posix # builtin import posixpath # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.4/posixpath.pyc import stat # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.4/stat.pyc import errno # builtin import UserDict # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.4/UserDict.pyc import copy_reg # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.4/copy_reg.pyc import types # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.4/types.pyc import japanese # directory /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/japanese import japanese # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/japanese/__init__.pyc import japanese.aliases # directory /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/japanese/aliases import japanese.aliases # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/japanese/aliases/__init__.pyc import encodings # directory /usr/lib64/python2.4/encodings import encodings # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.4/encodings/__init__.pyc import codecs # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.4/codecs.pyc import _codecs # builtin import encodings.aliases # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.4/encodings/aliases.pyc import warnings # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.4/warnings.pyc import linecache # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.4/linecache.pyc import encodings.utf_8 # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.4/encodings/utf_8.pyc Python 2.4.3 (#1, Jun 11 2009, 14:09:37) [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. dlopen("/usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-dynload/readline.so", 2); import readline # dynamically loaded from /usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-dynload/readline.so >>> import yum [vast swathes of successful imports snipped for space reasons] import bisect # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.4/bisect.pyc dlopen("/usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-dynload/_bisect.so", 2); import _bisect # dynamically loaded from /usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-dynload/_bisect.so # trying cookielib.so # trying cookielibmodule.so # trying cookielib.py # trying cookielib.pyc # trying /usr/lib64/python24.zip/cookielib.so # trying /usr/lib64/python24.zip/cookielibmodule.so # trying /usr/lib64/python24.zip/cookielib.py # trying /usr/lib64/python24.zip/cookielib.pyc # trying /usr/lib64/python2.4/cookielib.so # trying /usr/lib64/python2.4/cookielibmodule.so # trying /usr/lib64/python2.4/cookielib.py # /usr/lib64/python2.4/cookielib.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.4/cookielib.py Segmentation fault --- I've tried googling round but can't find anyone else having a similar problem; anyone have any suggestions? Thanks for any help, - rob. _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
