CentOS - Apr 2010 - Problem updating VM

Hi,

I am trying to bring one of my CentOS 5 VMs up to date.

I have run:

yum clean all

yum update yum

yum clean all

yum update python* rpm*

yum clean all

without any problems or error messages.

Now when I try to run yum update, I get the following:
[root at tusker ~]# yum update
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

   No module named cElementTree

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, 15:37:37)
[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 then downloaded the python-clementtree package from dags site and 
tried to install it and get:

[root at tusker ~]# rpm -i ./python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
warning: ./python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 
DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6
error: Failed dependencies:
        python-elementtree conflicts with 
python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.x86_64

yet when I query the package I get:

[root at tusker ~]# rpm -q python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
package python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm is not installed

and when I try to remove it I get:

[root at tusker ~]# rpm -e ./python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
error: package ./python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.i386.rpm is not 
installed

I have tried rebuilding the rpm database with no result.

Any suggestions?

TIA

ChrisG

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Chris Geldenhuis
<chris.gelden at iafrica.com> wrote:
[snip]
> Now when I try to run yum update, I get the following:
> [root at tusker ~]# yum update
> There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
> required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
>
> ? No module named cElementTree
>
> Please install a package which provides this module, or
> verify that the module is installed correctly.
That module is from CentOS python-elementree. Try validating that package:

rpm -qV python-elementtree

Note that this is different from python-celementtree from rpmforge...

[snip]
> I then downloaded the python-clementtree package from dags site and
> tried to install it and get:
>
> [root at tusker ~]# rpm -i
./python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
> warning: ./python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: Header V3
> DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6
> error: Failed dependencies:
> ? ? ? ?python-elementtree conflicts with
> python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.x86_64
>
That's a separate package and *should* not conflict..
> yet when I query the package I get:
>
> [root at tusker ~]# rpm -q python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
> package python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm is not installed
>
> and when I try to remove it I get:
>
> [root at tusker ~]# rpm -e ./python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
> error: package ./python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.i386.rpm is not
> installed
When you do a query, just use the basename:

rpm -q python-celementtree

On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 09:53:29PM +0200, Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
> [root at tusker ~]# rpm -q python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
> package python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm is not installed
Just do
  rpm -qa 'python-celementtree*'
> [root at tusker ~]# rpm -e ./python-celementtree-1.0.5-1.2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
Wrong syntax for 'rpm -e'.  You don't specify the rpm file, you
specify
the package.   If you don't _need_ celementtree (or can live without
it temporarily)
   rpm -e python-celementtree

-- 

rgds
Stephen