Dear Marc and Aron, On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 12:50:18AM +0200, Marc Fournier wrote: > 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 !
I have reason to believe that this is just a side effect of the following bug in RPM: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545720 Since that bug in RPM has been fixed, upgrading RPM should remove that cruft, and, therefore, this bug shouldn't occur again. As a test case, you can install the Lenny version of rpm and upgrade to the current squeeze/sid version, and things should work fine. Please let me know if this works for you. Thanks! Kumar -- Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol. - Rabindranath Tagore (Stray Birds, 1916)
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