I had the same error message when using "mach" and "yum" today, and found out that a guy also reported this problem in #538178.
In my case, this was easily solved by removing the files in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpm/ (which didn't belong to any installed package): lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 2008-05-22 13:54 _rpmmodule.a -> /usr/share/pyshared/rpm/_rpmmodule.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 2008-05-22 13:54 _rpmmodule.la -> /usr/share/pyshared/rpm/_rpmmodule.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 2008-05-22 13:54 __init__.py -> /usr/share/pyshared/rpm/__init__.py Maybe it would be an idea to investigate why different people have their rpm-related python package get broken because of some (apparently) generated files ? Let me know if can be of any help ! Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org