[Yum] Re: problems with yum on fc5
Brian Kidd
bkidd at u.washington.edu
Fri Apr 13 08:33:36 UTC 2007
I solved the problem by installing python.
python-2.4.3-9.FC5.i386.rpm
On Apr 13, 2007, at 12:07 AM, Brian Kidd wrote:
> I'm running fedora core 5 x86_64. The system was stable, but I
> hadn't done an update for a while so I decided to run an update and
> my system crashed about midway through the upgrade. Unfortunately,
> now I'm having major problems with yum not working at all. For
> example, when I type yum, I get:
>
> There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
> required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
>
> dynamic module does not define init function (inittime)
>
> 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:
> 2.4.3 (#1, Jun 13 2006, 11:46:08)
> [GCC 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1)]
>
> If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
> the yum faq at:
> http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq
>
> I've checked python and it's definitely a problem with importing
> the time module
>
> python
> >>> import yum
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 26,
> in ?
> import time
> ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function (inittime)
>
> I've also performed: rpmbuild --rebuild yum-2.6.1-0.fc5.src.rpm
>
> I have the following versions of rpm, yum, and python currently on
> my machine.
> RPM version 4.4.2
> yum-2.6.1-0.fc5
> python 2.4.3
>
> I've looked around the web, but none of the other suggestions
> helped. Has anyone else had this problem and solved it?
>
> Thanks,
> -Brian
>
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