I noticed yum wanted to upgrade openldap-devel. As I do not use LDAP nor develop against it, I thought it was strange it was installed. So I removed it using: $ sudo yum remove openldap-devel This removed the following: openldap-devel, apr-util-devel, httpd-devel. Now all yum commands fail with the following error: # yum upgrade There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: liblber-2.4.so.2: 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: 2.7.5 (default, Oct 8 2013, 12:19:40) [GCC 4.8.1 20130603 (Red Hat 4.8.1-1)] If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to the yum faq at: http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq
This might be a packaging bug, some components used by Yum may need liblber. Curl comes to mind, as it supports ldap:// URLs. Please run this, and copy-paste the traceback to verify. $ python -c 'import yum' $ python -c 'import pycurl'
To fix the Yum breakage, you'll probably have to download openldap-devel.rpm manually and install it with rpm.
Anyway, liblber-2.4.so.2 is owned by the openldap package, NOT by openldap-devel.. And there's a dependency chain yum => urlgrabber => curl => openldap already, so You should not be allowed to remove openldap. So either you ran "rpm -e openldap --nodeps", or your system is broken be some other means. Please check that openldap is installed, and reinstall it.
Likely to be an instance of: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1028557
Removing NEEDINFO.
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1028557 ***