From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461) Description of problem: On two 7.1 boxes I've used up2date to upgrade some outdated packages and it's caused up2date and rhn_check and all the RHN related stuff to break. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. use up2date to upgrade packaging system/RHN/Python related packages. 2. 3. Additional info: Here's a full listing of what happened today: [root@palm /root]# up2date python-popt rpm Retrieving list of all available packages... Removing installed packages from list of updates... ######################################## Removing packages with files not specified from list... Removing packages marked to skip from list... ######################################## Getting headers for available packages... ######################################## Removing packages with files marked to skip from list... ######################################## Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... There was a package dependency problem. The message was: Unresolvable chain of dependencies: rpm-python-4.0.2-8 requires librpmio.so.0. [root@palm /root]# up2date rpm-python rpm Retrieving list of all available packages... Removing installed packages from list of updates... ######################################## Removing packages with files not specified from list... Removing packages marked to skip from list... ######################################## Getting headers for available packages... ######################################## Removing packages with files marked to skip from list... ######################################## Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... ######################################## The following packages were added to your selection to satify dependencies: Name Version Release -------------------------------------------------------------- popt 1.6.4 7x Retrieving selected packages... rpm: ########################## Done. rpm-python: ########################## Done. popt: ########################## Done. Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:popt ########################################### [ 33%] warning: /var/lib/rpm/Basenames created as /var/lib/rpm/Basenames.rpmnew warning: /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname created as /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname.rpmnew warning: /var/lib/rpm/Group created as /var/lib/rpm/Group.rpmnew warning: /var/lib/rpm/Name created as /var/lib/rpm/Name.rpmnew warning: /var/lib/rpm/Packages created as /var/lib/rpm/Packages.rpmnew warning: /var/lib/rpm/Providename created as /var/lib/rpm/Providename.rpmnew warning: /var/lib/rpm/Requirename created as /var/lib/rpm/Requirename.rpmnew warning: /var/lib/rpm/Triggername created as /var/lib/rpm/Triggername.rpmnew 2:rpm ########################################### [ 66%] 3:rpm-python ########################################### [100%] [root@palm /root]# rhn_check Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/sbin/rhn_check", line 17, in ? import rpm ImportError: /lib/librt.so.1: symbol __pthread_clock_settime, version GLIBC_2.2.3 not defined in file libpthread.so.0 with link time reference [root@palm /root]# up2date libstdc++ Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 9, in ? import rpm ImportError: /lib/librt.so.1: symbol __pthread_clock_settime, version GLIBC_2.2.3 not defined in file libpthread.so.0 with link time reference
That looks to be an glibc issue. Can you try updating glibc by hand to the latest version?
Unfortunately I'm no longer in a position to be able to test this.