Description of problem: Same problem as in 160373 when upgrading from RH8 to Fedora5. Everything looks normal in the upgrade log. There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined symbol: xmlTextReaderGetParserColumnNumber It's possible that the above module doesn't match the current version of Python, which is: 2.4.2 (#1, Feb 12 2006, 03:59:46) [GCC 4.1.0 20060210 (Red Hat 4.1.0-0.24)] -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 388790 Feb 12 01:59 /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/libxml2mod.a These versions seem to match. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): from FC5 DVD How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
The cause has been found: an older version of libxml2.so in /usr/local/lib was apparently found before the upgraded version in /usr/lib