[Yum] Segfault

[swordsaintzero]

Tru Huynh wrote:

>On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 12:16:09PM -0600, swordsaintzero wrote:
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>>>Message: 1
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><... yum segfault ...>
><... python import yum .... segfaults ...>
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>>>up can you do a rpm -q for the packages ?
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>>>rpm-python-4.3.3-11_nonptl
>>>yum-2.4.0-1.centos4
>>>rpm-4.3.3-11_nonptl
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>>>Centos4.2 Release Versions working
>>>Greetz mIke
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>>What I currently have installed:  
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>>rpm-python 4.2.3-21 
>>rpm-4.2.3-21_nonptl
>>yum-2.0.8-1.centos.7
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>>Interestingly enough the centos 3.4 repository has rpm-python version 
>>-24 and rpm version -24 listed in the http repository of the mirror im 
>>looking at. Would that small of a version difference cause a segfault?
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>ok you are running CentOS-3
>Current CentOS-3 is 3.6
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>can you verify that you are running the system python?
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>[tru at carrington ~]$ rpm -q python
>python-2.2.3-6.1
>[tru at carrington ~]$ python
>Python 2.2.3 (#1, Feb 15 2005, 02:41:06) 
>[GCC 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-49)] on linux2
>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
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>You should move this thread to the centos mailing list :)
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>Cheers.
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>Tru
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Thank you for your help, the reason I did not ask the centos mailing 
list about this problem is, since it only occurs with yum I assumed it 
must be a yum dependency that I am missing and that this list would have 
the most expertise with the issue. I have no intention of spamming the 
list with purely os related issues if you truly think I am abusing the 
list please email me off list and I will of course cease asking 
questions.. : )  Python works fine, rpm works great, so does every other 
ap in the system except yum.  I am currently running 3.4 rather than 3.6 
due to a lack of yum for a dist upgrade. my /etc/redhat-release shows it 
as 3.4 final.

rpm -q python
python-2.2.3-6.1

root at thunder: pts/0: 41 files 19Mb -> python
Python 2.2.3 (#1, Feb 15 2005, 02:41:06)
[GCC 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-49)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
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It appears the system python path and the python listed in the rpms 
database are the same, I have also since updated the rpm-python and rpm 
bringing them both up  to the repositories -24 version with no change in 
yums behavior. an rpm -Va does not show any missing rpms and as far as I 
know all my versions are now in synch with each other.

I did discover a second python installation in /usr/local/bin for 
python2.4 if I move the python entry in /usr/bin and ln -s 
/usr/local/bin/python2.4 python, yum now returns,

 yum
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 22, in ?
    import yummain
  File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 22, in ?
    import clientStuff
  File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 18, in ?
    import rpm
ImportError: No module named rpm

Should I for some reason be using 2.4? I know 2.4 is missing modules can 
I simply extract all the dependencies with rpm2cpio for yum and place 
them in this pythons site packages folder? Is ther a coherent list of 
exactly what yum depends on somewhere? This problem is driving me up a 
wall, I ask for some leeway since I have never administered a redhat 
system, only slackware and debian and I am finding all sorts of things 
have already been done to it. If it wasn't my clients only server and in 
production right now I would advise a format but he can't afford the 
downtime.

Thank you very much for all the prompt replies and expertise I have 
recieved from this list so far I can assure you I will use anything I 
learn here to help anyone else with issues in the same vein.  (sigh if 
only this was debian....grumble I am still learning the redhat clone's 
ins and outs)