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Re: yum update / python
From:
Chris Schanzle <[log in to unmask]>
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Chris Schanzle <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:49:04 -0400
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On 06/20/2012 07:30 AM, Andras Horvath wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:26:16 +0400
> Oleg Sadov<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>
>> 20/06/2012 08:35 +0200, Andras Horvath wrote:
>>> On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:05:49 +0200
>>> Andras Horvath<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:59:26 -0700
>>>> Akemi Yagi<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Andras Horvath<[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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?
>>>>>
>>>>> Run 'rpm -V' against the packages.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you get any output, then there is (are) some mismatch(es).
>>>>> Man page has the explanation for the output.
>>>>>
>>>>> Akemi
>>>>
>>>> I ran it against python and yum packages, but all are ok.
>>>>
>>>> Andras
>>>
>>> If I restore "/usr/lib64/python2.6" directory from my backup, then
>>> yum works again just fine. I can run "yum update" too. But when I
>>> run "yum reinstall python", then after the package install
>>> everything goes wrong again.
>>>
>>> Any idea what could cause this? This is a simple case installing a
>>> package.
>>
>> Required cElementTree module is actually located in xml.etree
>> (/usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/cElementTree.py from python rpm),
>> standalone cElementTree is not included in distro. Try to check access
>> to the module at python interactive session:
>>
>> from xml.etree import cElementTree
>>
>>> Andras
>
> $ python
> Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Jun 18 2012, 09:57:52)
> [GCC 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> from xml.etree import cElementTree
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in<module>
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/cElementTree.py", line 3, in<module>
>      from _elementtree import *
> ImportError: /usr/lib64/python2.6/lib-dynload/pyexpat.so: symbol XML_SetHashSalt, version EXPAT_2_0_1_RH not defined in file libexpat.so.1 with link time reference
>>>>
>
>
> Andras

What does this output?

rpm -q expat

Do you have a yum update pending for it?

rpm -q --changelog expat | head
* Fri Apr 27 2012 Joe Orton <[log in to unmask]> - 2.0.1-11
- use symbol version for XML_SetHashSalt (CVE-2012-0876, #816306)

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