On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 23:55 +0100, Matthew Valentino wrote: > I've come across an issue I don't know how to deal with and I cannot > find any answers anywhere! > > > I'm getting the following error when I try to run yum, but only when > postfix is running: > > > There was a problem importing one of the Python modules > required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: > > > No module named rpmUtils > > > 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, Sep 3 2009, 15:37:37) > [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)] > > > If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to > the yum faq at: > http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq > > > > > As soon as I stop Postfix, yum works again perfectly. I'm really not > sure why it's causing this or what to do. I did compile and install > postfix 2.7-1 myself; I skipped over the version in the CentOS > repository. I suspect that something postfix is running is redefining the pythonpath on your system. after postfix runs run: echo $PYTHONPATH I suspect that yum's modules is not in anything in that path. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
