Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 119499
Cannot add/remove programs using system-config-packages because of an XML library error.
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:39 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040312 Description of problem: [root@sts59105 root]# /usr/bin/system-config-packages Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/system-config-packages/MainWindow.py", line 16, in ? import method File "/usr/share/system-config-packages/method.py", line 15, in ? import GroupSet File "/usr/share/system-config-packages/GroupSet.py", line 26, in ? import rhpl.comps File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhpl/comps.py", line 5, in ? import libxml2 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in ? import libxml2mod ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined symbol: xmlXIncludeProcessFlags Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run system-config-packages 2. 3. Actual Results: nothing. Expected Results: Should have been able to see the add/remove packages GUI. Additional info: None really, it's a clean install on Test2.
libxml2mod.so is in the libxml2-python-2.6.7-1.1.i386.rpm package.
Do you have matching versions of libxml2 and libxml2-python installed? What's the output of ldd /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2mod.so?
Thanks for your speedy response Jeremy. ldd usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2mod.so libxml2.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0x006b6000) libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x00eca000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x00823000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00111000) libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x00122000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00a89000)
[root@sts59105 u4035491]# rpm -q libxml2 libxml2-2.6.8-1 [root@sts59105 u4035491]# rpm -q libxml2-python libxml2-python-2.6.8-1
Bingo, you have a locally installed copy of an older version of libxml2 that's first in your library path. Remove that and things will be happier. libxml2.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0x006b6000)
Thanks Jeremy, This machine was updated from Fedora Core 1, not sure if this will be an issue for others.
Hi Jeremy, The symbolic link keeps re-appearing. It seems that whenever I run up2date, it re-instates the link. So I have to keep deleting it. Kind regards, Shane.
You need to remove the actual older version of the library you have in /usr/local/lib, not just the symlink.