2009/4/22 Dan Roberts <dan at jlazyh.com>: > thanks for the details - As the server lives in a closet without a > monitor on it or even easy access I opted for Webmin so as to have the > ability to get in and work with it. > > I will resubscribe and get back into a better habit - I had been > checking every day a year ago, and then life got busy. > > Things were fine, and I had no trouble the in January when i put a > monitor on it for some other reasons - but after the hang today it now > is stuck. > > As my cut and past below indicates, the "yum clean all" results in a > consistent set of errors - any yum command seems to return the same > errors. > > Regardless of how or why they were caused, the issue now is how to > clear them out so that I can actually get yum to work - > > [root at trailrunner yum]# yum clean all > 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 > [root at trailrunner yum]# This looks like a problem with python to me. Try removing the python RPM and reinstalling, perhaps?