[Yum] Having Yum Problems

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 18:23 +0000, John Fox wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am having yum problems with my server. The OS is Centos 4.6,
> yum version centos-2.4.3. Yum emits this message during
> activation:
> 
> "There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
> required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
> 
>    librpmbuild-4.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file or directory
> 
> 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:
> 2.3.4 (#1, Dec 11 2007, 05:27:57)
> [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)] "
> 
> Can someone please tell me how to rectify this problem. All help
> would be gratefully appreciated.
> 

you're probably best asking on a centos list but I'll take a few stabs:

please give us the output of:
rpm -q rpm rpm-python yum python

that's a good place to start
-sv