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I'm making a set of changes to a group of 150 servers. All systems were able to successfully download and install a specific set of RPM's via
yum
, except for one. One this particular system, all yum commands outside of "clean" dump the following to the screen:
[root@dev1v ~]# yum install sssd
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py:612: DeprecationWarning: The xmllib module is obsolete. Use xml.sax instead.
import xmllib # lazy subclassing (!)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 285, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 136, in main
result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 434, in doCommands
self._getTs(needTsRemove)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 99, in _getTs
self._getTsInfo(remove_only)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repoMDObject.py", line 124, in __init__
self.parse(srcfile)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repoMDObject.py", line 140, in parse
parser = iterparse(infile)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/misc.py", line 1169, in cElementTree_iterparse
_cElementTree_import()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/misc.py", line 1164, in _cElementTree_import
import cElementTree
ImportError: No module named cElementTree
I've tried:
yum clean
reinstalling bits and pieces manually via RPM... expat, part of python, etc.
rebuilding the RPM database
Any thoughts?
The fix:
Apparently, the Oracle installation on this system injected Oracle's path into LD_LIBRARY_PATH...
[root@dev1v etc]# export
declare -x LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/client_1/lib"
Unsetting the variable allowed yum to function properly again.
Hmm, in python 2.6, cElementTree lives in /usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/cElementTree.py, which is part of the python package. The fact that you're reaching the import cElementTree in the yum code indicates that xml.etree seems missing.
Try reinstalling python by manually downloading the rpm and using rpm -Uvh.
If that doesn't work, what happens if you import xml.etree.cElementTree in a python shell? What does rpm --verify python say?
I have also seen someone causing this issue by putting Oracle's lib/ path in /etc/ld.so.conf.d
Using:
echo /opt/oracle/app/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/lib/ > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/oracle.conf
Solved this issue by removing /etc/ld.so.conf.d/oracle.conf.
Recently, I resolved this problem as the following: (OS: CentOS 6.3 with Oracle installed).
Edit /etc/profile and find export LD_LIBRARY_PATH line if present.
Add /lib64 before $ORACLE_HOME/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/lib64:$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client/lib
Log out and re-logon as root.
If any variable is defined in /etc/ld.so.conf then remove it and run # ldconfig command to recreate ld cache.
[root@host ~]# ldconfig
Confirm that the Python library now links to the correct /lib64/libexpat.so.1 library.
[root@host ~]# ldd /usr/lib64/python2.6/lib-dynload/pyexpat.so
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