[CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

[Toby Bluhm]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Dan Roberts wrote:
> 
>> that aside - I can't run the command you suggest because any yum  
>> operation results in the same error message.
>>
>>
>> # yum clean all && yum update glibc\* && yum update
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "/usr/bin/yum", line 28, in ?
>>      import yummain
>>    File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 29, in ?
>>      import cli
>>    File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 30, in ?
>>      import output
>>    File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 26, in ?
>>      from i18n import _
>> ImportError: No module named i18n
> 
> I think this is your immediate problem.  Do you have a 
> /usr/share/yum-cli/i18n.py file?
> 

Run on my four C5.3 systems here

yum provides "/usr/share/yum-cli/i18n.py"
rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/share/yum-cli/i18n.py
ls -las /usr/share/yum-cli/i18n.py

I got zip.


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tkb