[Yum] intersting artifact RHL 7.3, later JBJ rpm-4.1.1-0.1.7x, yum 1.97-1

[R P Herrold]

RHL 7.3, carefully upgraded with backports:

[root at router root]# sudo rpm -Uvh \
	/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/libxml2-python-2.5.6-2.i386.rpm \
	/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/libxml2-2.5.6-2.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:libxml2                ########################################### [ 50%]
   2:libxml2-python         ########################################### [100%]
[root at router root]# rpm -Uvh yum-1.97-1.noarch.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:yum                    ########################################### [100%]
[root at router root]# yum update
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 22, in ?
    import yummain
ImportError: Bad magic number in /usr/share/yum/yummain.pyc
[root at router root]# 

first time I have seen that uncaught exception.  

Probably from a Sig 11 on bad ram, right?  no boogs here. <g>

-- Russ