On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:44:46 +0200
Andras Horvath <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:38:11 -0700
> Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 2:52 AM, Andras Horvath <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:44:18 -0700
> > > Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > 
> > >> Apparently you are not alone. Someone else reported a similar
> > >> problem:
> > >>
> > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833271
> > >>
> > >> Akemi
> > >
> > > Thanks for the link to the bug report, I'll follow it.
> > >
> > > Also I can confirm, that on several other server systems without X
> > > or GUI the update has been successful. I'm having problems on
> > > desktop only.
> > >
> > > Andras
> > 
> > The submitter of the above bugzilla found the source of trouble:
> > 
> > "It turned out to be LD_LIBRARY_PATH which on some of our servers is
> > set for Oracle. It points to $ORACLE_HOME/lib. Unsetting this
> > environment variable makes yum working again."
> > 
> > Akemi
> 
> Thanks for the update. I just saw it too and tested it, but this env
> var is not set on my desktop, so unsetting it doesn't make any change.
> 
> So unfortunately the problem still persists.
> 
> Andras

I simply still don't understand. I have a copy of my working server's
files on my desktop computer, so I can compare my not working yum .py
files to the ones on my server (which is working). I did and I find
them identical.

What could go wrong during the update? Could some of the core python
settings or files change?

Does anyone have any idea how I could track down the problem? Here are
what I already tried:

- generate a list of .py files in /usr/lib/python with find and then
  sort and compare the md5sum, but too many different packages are
  installed, so I cannot be sure what's missing
- list installed python packages with "yum list installed | grep
  python" and every base package seems installed that needs to be
- check python version, that's ok too
- check my python binary, its md5 is good there too
- check all .py files in /usr/lib/python/site-packages/yum, but
  everything is ok

What could be missing? Can it really have something to do with
environmental variables?

How could I run a self check on all packages with rpm to see if all the
files are there and their hashes match too?


Thanks,

Andras