On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Frederic Boone wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I don't know exactly what happened but surprisingly ssh doesn't work
> anymore on my pc:
>
> ssh: symbol lookup error: ssh: undefined symbol: FIPS_mode
>
> Neither does yum:
>
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 49, in ?
>    import config
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 27, in ?
>    from parser import ConfigPreProcessor
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/parser.py", line 3, in ?
>    import urlgrabber
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/__init__.py", line
> 53, in ?
>    from grabber import urlgrab, urlopen, urlread
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
> 412, in ?
>    import keepalive
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/keepalive.py", line
> 339, in ?
>    class HTTPSHandler(KeepAliveHandler, urllib2.HTTPSHandler):
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPSHandler'
>
> Are both problems related? Did I unintentionally remove any important file?
>
> I hopped that upgrading to SL 5.3 (from the DVDs as yum doesn't work)
> would fix the problem but it is still there.
>
> Any idea?

Check your yum log file in /var/log and see what was updated prior to your 
problem.

-connie sieh
>
> Thanks
> F
>