From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 Description of problem: Yum gives a Traceback Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.1.11-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.yum update 2.yum clean all 3.yum update Actual Results: # yum update Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 6, in ? import yummain File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 23, in ? import yum File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 33, in ? import groups File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/groups.py", line 3, in ? import comps File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/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: xmlNewDocPI Expected Results: yum would run, fetch headers and updated packages Additional info: Security issue? can not apply security patches using yum.
Not a security issue, any more than 'system won't boot' is a security issue. run: rpm -q libxml2 libxml2-python tell me what it turns up. were you running fc3 from a pure install or did you run the test/rc releases? Were you running rawhide?
I found the problem on this, I was not running rawhide however at some point ended up with libxml2-python-2.6.15-2 while running FC2.
libxml2-python-2.6.15-2 was part of an update Oct 28th 2004, I am told after FC3 was closed.