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

[Les Mikesell]

Dan Roberts wrote:
> My current version of python appears to be python 2.4.3
> 
> python - v (without quotes returned a slue of lines, but near the  
> bottom it said
> Python 2.4.3 (#1, Jan 21 2009, 01:10:13)
> [GCC 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)] on linux2
> 
> As to the question below - I have that directory, but not that file.
> 

Does 'rpm -Vv yum' say it was installed by is now missing?

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