[Yum] Yum _sqlitecache.so error

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 08:49 -0600, dyn42 at berardi.info wrote:
> I upgraded Fedora from 6 to 8 and yum is not working.  I have tried
> installing the yum and python packages again but this has not helped.
> 
> $ yum
> There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
> required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
> 
>    /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_sqlitecache.so: undefined symbol:
> g_string_chunk_insert_len
> 
> 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:
> 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct 30 2007, 13:54:11)
> [GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)]
> 
> Here are the installed packages.
> 
> $ rpm -qa rpm\* yum\* python sqlite |sort
> python-2.5.1-15.fc8
> rpm-4.4.2.2-3.fc8
> rpm-build-4.4.2.2-3.fc8
> rpm-devel-4.4.2.2-3.fc8
> rpm-libs-4.4.2.2-3.fc8
> rpm-python-4.4.2.2-3.fc8
> sqlite-3.4.2-3.fc8
> yum-3.2.7-1.fc8
> yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-1.fc8
> yum-updatesd-0.7-1.fc8
> yum-utils-1.1.8-1.fc8
> 
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 


could you run:
rpm -qa sqlite\* python\*

I think we'll find the culprit there.

-sv