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

Wed Apr 22 18:55:38 UTC 2009
Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Dan Roberts <dan at jlazyh.com> wrote:
> I will start reading again and striving to improve things.  I have
> previously taken steps to secure the server, and was under the
> impression that it was so.

I hope so. If not, you have a tiger by the tail.
>
> 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

<http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/s2-sysconfig-i18n.html>

Have you tried yum install i18n  ?