[CentOS] rpm problem after upgrade

Matt Hyclak hyclak at math.ohiou.edu
Wed Sep 20 17:39:45 UTC 2006


On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 05:16:09PM +0100, Andres Baravalle enlightened us:
> I have upgraded Centos from 3.x to 4.3.
> 
> The upgrade apparently didn't go too bad. I had to do the upgrade
> remotely, and I used as a base the post at
> http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=382
> 
> I rebooted the server, and it works. But yum does not work anymore,
> apparently due to some conflict between rpmlibs and selinux.
> 
> This is the error that I get:
> 
> --------------------------
> 
> There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
> required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
> 
>   /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rpmmodule.so: undefined symbol:
> rpmtsSetREContext
> 
> 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:
> 2.3.4 (#1, Feb 22 2005, 04:09:37)
> [GCC 3.4.3 20041212 (Red Hat 3.4.3-9.EL4)]
> 
> --------------------------
> 
> These are the relevant rpms that I have installed in my system:
> python-2.3.4-14.1
> rpm-4.3.3-13_nonptl
> rpm-libs-4.3.3-13_nonptl
> yum-2.4.2-2.centos4
> 

Is python-rpm installed?

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Matt Hyclak
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