CentOS4.6; yum spontaneously broke (libxml2mod.so undef. symbol xmlNewDocPI)
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From: Damon Getsman on 24 Apr 2008 14:43 I'm using CentOS4.6 in a virtual machine (that shouldn't matter for this) that I'm setting up to provide a service here. Anyway, I'd gotten everything configured just fine, no former problems with yum or anything else on the system and then I find out I need to try to provide libdb.so.1 for my new server proggie. So I break out yum and begin searching for something that will provide that. But it doesn't go very far, because out of nowhere 'yum' comes back with: -=-=-=-=-=-=- 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/libxml2mod.so: undefined symbol: xmlNewDocPI 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, May 2 2007, 19:26:00) [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-8)] -=-=-=-=-=-=- I have absolutely no clue what might've broken this. I've never had a problem using yum on the machine and I've added a few packages to it previously without a problem. Anyway to try to fix it I manually snagged 'libxml2-python-2.6.16-10.i386.rpm' from the CentOS4 repository, which is where libxml2mod.so is provided. I had to force an install because it said it was already there. Of course, it fixed nothing. Does anybody have any ideas of what I might be able to do about this other than a full reinstall? I'm thankful for anything you might have about this; I don't get a chance to use CentOS very often, and I'm afraid that I don't know nearly as much about it as a few other variants. Thanks for your time and assistance! <a href="http://www.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDetail.aspx? PersonID=-214241"> Damon Getsman Linux/Solaris System Administrator </a>
From: Damon Getsman on 24 Apr 2008 17:37
On Apr 24, 1:43 pm, Damon Getsman <dgets...(a)amirehab.net> wrote: > So I break out yum and begin searching for something that will provide > that. But it doesn't go very far, because out of nowhere 'yum' comes > back with: > > -=-=-=-=-=-=- > 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/libxml2mod.so: undefined symbol: > xmlNewDocPI > > 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, May 2 2007, 19:26:00) > [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-8)] > -=-=-=-=-=-=- > > I have absolutely no clue what might've broken this. I've never had a > problem using yum on the machine and I've added a few packages to it > previously without a problem. Anyway to try to fix it I manually > snagged 'libxml2-python-2.6.16-10.i386.rpm' from the CentOS4 > repository, which is where libxml2mod.so is provided, etc, etc, etc [snip] Oh wait. I didn't break anything. Unlike any other distribution that I've come across, CentOS just isn't smart enough to know when you run 'yum' from 'su' that it should still provide access to the same dependencies. Stability is great, but this is the most obtuse distribution of linux that I've ever had the misfortune to be forced to use. |