From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040312 Description of problem: [root@localhost root]# up2date Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 12, in ? import rpm ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rpmmodule.so: undefined symbol: rpmdsBT Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-4.3.15-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Terminal 2.SU 3.up2date Actual Results: [root@localhost root]# up2date Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 12, in ? import rpm ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rpmmodule.so: undefined symbol: rpmdsBT Expected Results: up2date GUI should open. Additional info: This happened after all the updates. I made sure to make up2date update first by itself as instructed. Then i restarted up2date and did the rest of update .. 200 something of them ... after that finished up2date did not want to run again.
what version of rpm is installed? rpm -q rpm also, can you verify that rpm and rpm-python are installed correctly (aka, paste the output of... rpm -V rpm rpm-python
rpm -q rpm reply: rpm-4.3.1-0.3 rpm -V rpm rpm-python reply: missing /var/lock/rpm