Description of problem: After updating to today's rawhide yum fails with this.. There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: No module named _sha256 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: 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Sep 30 2008, 15:42:03) [GCC 4.3.2 20080917 (Red Hat 4.3.2-4)] If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to the yum faq at: http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 20-5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum <enter> 2. 3. Actual results: The above Expected results: Yum being functional.. Additional info:
openssl updated and broke ABI ... do the symlink thing to work around it (see f-d-l).
reassigning to openssl and reopening.
The symbolic link for libcrypto.so.7 was missing Simple ln -s /lib64/libcrypto.so.8 /lib64/libcrypto.so.7 Fixed this for me There where other things that broke as well for like cups sendmail and more Did not keep track of it all fixed after creating the symbolic link..
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 480312 ***