[Yum] Error: cannot import name RpmUtilsError after last RHEL 5.x upgrade

Esteban B. shakauy at gmail.com
Fri Mar 6 17:17:57 UTC 2009


Downloaded and installed yum and rpm-python packages from latest RHEL 5.3
that I had on another server and everything is working fine now. Anyway,
Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Esteban.-


2009/3/5 James Antill <james-yum at and.org>

> "Esteban B." <shakauy at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > This is the problem - After lastest upgrade from RHEL 5.2 to RHEL 5.3 i'm
> > not able to use Yum anymore, this is what I got:
> >
> > [root at server.myserver.com:~]*yum check-update*
> > There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
> > required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
> >
> > *   cannot import name RpmUtilsError*
> >
> > 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, Sep 17 2008, 16:04:01)
> > [GCC 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-41)]
> >
> > If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
> > the yum faq at:
> >   http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq
> >
> >
> > Tried loading the module manually from python, and seems to be the same:
> >
> > [root at server.myserver.com:~]python
> > Python 2.4.3 (#1, Sep 17 2008, 16:04:01)
> > [GCC 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-41)] on linux2
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>>> import RpmUtilsError
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> > ImportError: No module named RpmUtilsError
> >>>>
> > [root at server.myserver.com:~]
>
>  The line that's failing will be this one:
>
> from rpmUtils import RpmUtilsError
>
> ...so you could see if/who that also fails from python. But this
> implies that the install of yum itself is broken. You can try:
>
>  rpm -q yum
>  rpm -V yum
>  rpm -Va --nofiles --nomd5
>
> ...or just force a reinstall of the yum package with rpm and see if
> that helps (at which point you can run package-cleanup and
> yum-complete-transaction etc. to see if they find anything).
>
> --
> James Antill -- james at and.org
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