In article <201911071633.27771.gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk>, Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Paddy, > > I was suspecting the same, and from the output below I think you're right. However, I was hoping I could just repair > this problem for now, and worry about replacing the HDD later. I need to resume some services that also seem to > generate this same error. > > Gary > > [root at zeppo services]# ll /usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload/itertoolsmodule.so > -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 61976 Sep 15 2016 /usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload/itertoolsmodule.so > [root at zeppo services]# cat /usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload/itertoolsmodule.so > cat: /usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload/itertoolsmodule.so: Input/output error > [root at zeppo services]# If the file contains a bad block, maybe you could rename the file using mv (which shouldn't involve reading its contents), so that the bad block isn't freed, and then do the suggested "yum reinstall python-libs" to restore it? Make sure that anything precious on that hard drive is backed up somewhere! Cheers Tony > On Thursday 07 November 2019 16:25:54 Paddy Doyle wrote: > > Hi Gary, > > > > That "Input/output error" suggests a disk problem to me. Does that file > > /usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload/itertoolsmodule.so actually exist and is > > it readable? > > > > Also look the the output of 'rpm -V python-libs' to see if rpm considers > > the installed files to be corrupt. > > > > If it's not that, then you could try 'yum reinstall python-libs'. > > > > Paddy > > > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 04:18:18PM +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > > > > I've just tried a yum update on one of my C7 boxes and got the following output. > > > > > > I'm guessing to fix this I need to re-install the RPM, but I can't remove it because of dependancies, so how can I > fix the problem? > > > I've managed to download a later version of the RPM, but haven't managed to find the same version as the one installed. > > > > > > Gary > > > > > > [root at zeppo ~]# yum install > > > There was a problem importing one of the Python modules > > > required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: > > > > > > /usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload/itertoolsmodule.so: cannot read file data: Input/output error > > > > > > 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: > > > 2.7.5 (default, Sep 15 2016, 22:37:39) > > > [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)] > > > > > > If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to > > > the yum faq at: > > > http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq > > > > > > > > > [root at zeppo ~]# rpm -qf /usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload/itertoolsmodule.so > > > python-libs-2.7.5-39.el7_2.x86_64 > > > [root at zeppo ~]# > > > [root at zeppo ~]# rpm -e python-libs-2.7.5-39.el7_2.x86_64 > > > error: Failed dependencies: > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) python-lxml-3.2.1-4.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) yum-metadata-parser-1.1.4-10.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) pyliblzma-0.5.3-11.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) pyxattr-0.5.1-5.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) cmpi-bindings-pywbem-0.9.5-6.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) python-kmod-0.9-4.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) newt-python-0.52.15-4.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) python-setproctitle-1.1.6-5.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) python-ethtool-0.8-5.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) python-urwid-1.1.1-3.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) python-pycurl-7.19.0-17.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) PyYAML-3.10-11.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) pygpgme-0.3-9.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) python-cups-1.9.63-6.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) python-2.7.5-39.el7_2.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) libxml2-python-2.9.1-6.el7_2.3.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) gdb-7.6.1-80.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) python-dmidecode-3.10.13-11.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) python-perf-3.10.0-327.36.3.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) cryptsetup-python-1.6.7-1.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) pyparted-1:3.9-13.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) rpm-python-4.11.3-17.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.873-33.el7_2.2.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) python-pcp-3.10.6-2.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) lvm2-python-libs-7:2.02.130-5.el7_2.5.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) perf-3.10.0-327.36.3.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) m2crypto-0.21.1-17.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) python-pillow-2.0.0-19.gitd1c6db8.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) bacula-libs-5.2.13-23.1.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) bacula-storage-5.2.13-23.1.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) bacula-client-5.2.13-23.1.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) gnome-python2-canvas-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) gnome-python2-bonobo-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) gnome-python2-gnomevfs-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) gnome-python2-gnome-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) pytalloc-2.1.6-1.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) samba-libs-0:4.4.4-9.el7.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) policycoreutils-python-2.5-11.el7_3.x86_64 > > > libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) systemd-python-219-30.el7_3.8.x86_64 > > > python-libs(x86-64) = 2.7.5-39.el7_2 is needed by (installed) python-2.7.5-39.el7_2.x86_64 > > > [root at zeppo ~]# > > > _______________________________________________ > > > CentOS mailing list > > > CentOS at centos.org > > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > > > > > -- > Gary Stainburn > Group I.T. 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