[Yum] yum/python problem

Bob Kashani bobk at ocf.berkeley.edu
Sun Feb 6 03:08:01 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 15:21 -0500, Mike Detwiler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been using yum to successfully update the FC3 installation on my 
> Dell laptop for a few months, but now I've run into some problems. I was 
> running yum a couple of days ago, and one of the packages to be updated 
> was python-2.3.4-13.1. After I told yum it was OK to update the packages 
> it had selected for update, I walked away for a few minutes only to 
> return and find all sorts of unintelligible characters scrolling across 
> the terminal as if yum had gotten itself into some sort of infinite 
> loop. I couldn't stop things with Ctrl-C or Ctrl-D, so I closed the 
> Gnome terminal window. Now when I try to run yum, I get the following 
> error message:
> 
> /usr/bin/python: error while loading shared libraries: 
> libpython2.3.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: Error 40
> 
> I'm still not much more than a novice Linux user, so any suggestions 
> would be greatly appreciated.

Try downloading python-2.3.4-13.1 and installing it with:

rpm -Uvh --force python-2.3.4-13.1*

Yum is written in python so if the python upgrade borked than that's
obviously bad.

Bob

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