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

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 22:38, R P Herrold wrote:
> 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>

run python -V on that system.

I bet the pyc files are compiled for the wrong version of python.

-sv