Yum broken

Keds · 11-05-2010, 09:37 AM

I logged on to one of my servers and ran a yum update, while the update was in progress my SSH connection got disconnected.

I logged in through a new connection when connectivity was restored and looked at running processes. It looked like yum was hung so I killed it (big mistake and one I won't repeat).

Now, when I try and run yum, I get the following:

Quote:

yum update
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

/usr/lib/libelf.so.1: version `ELFUTILS_1.1.1' not found (required by /usr/lib/librpmbuild-4.4.so)

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:
2.4.3 (#1, Sep 3 2009, 15:37:12)
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)]

If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
the yum faq at:
http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq

I have tried hunting around for the correct version of libelf without much luck.

Is there anything I can do to get yum working again?

Any help would be gratefully received!

Regards,

Ked

Edit: The server is running Centos 5.2

AlucardZero · 11-05-2010, 10:53 AM

Code:

/usr/lib/libelf.so.1: version `ELFUTILS_1.1.1' not found (required by /usr/lib/librpmbuild-4.4.so)

-> http://www.google.com/search?num=30&...=&oq=&gs_rfai=

->

Code:

$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libelf.so.1
elfutils-libelf-0.137-3.el5

-> Download the latest elfutils-libelf RPM fron CentOS and install it with "rpm -Uvh elfutils-libelf*.rpm"

Keds · 11-06-2010, 06:16 AM

Thanks for the pointer, I downloaded the latest libelf RPM from a Centos mirror and installed it - problem solved and lesson learned