[Yum] Weird FC16 yum problem

[James Antill]

Walter Keen <walter.keen at rainierconnect.net> writes:

> I'm hoping I'm not the first one to encounter this, and unfortunately
> I'm not sure what led up to this, but when I try to use yum, I get
> this....
>
> [root at wkeen ~]# yum search nano
> There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
> required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
>
>    /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/selectmodule.so: undefined symbol: mory

 I'd try:

  ldd /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/selectmodule.so

...my guess is that you have something installed outside of rpm that
is messing with the shared libraries of python.
 Running "rpm -V python", might also point out a problem.

-- 
James Antill -- james at and.org