yum not working due to "ImportError: No module named cElementTree" error.
Issue
After upgrading python to 2.6, yum is failing to run properly:
yum -y update
Plugin "refresh-packagekit" can't be imported
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py:612: DeprecationWarning: The xmllib module is obsolete. Use xml.sax instead.
import xmllib # lazy subclassing (!)
rhel-x86_64-server-6 | 1.8 kB 00:00
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 285, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 136, in main
result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 434, in doCommands
self._getTs(needTsRemove)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 99, in _getTs
self._getTsInfo(remove_only)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 110, in _getTsInfo
pkgSack = self.pkgSack
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 897, in <lambda>
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 682, in _getSacks
self.repos.populateSack(which=repos)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 294, in populateSack
sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 165, in populate
if self._check_db_version(repo, mydbtype):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 223, in _check_db_version
return repo._check_db_version(mdtype)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1256, in _check_db_version
repoXML = self.repoXML
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1455, in <lambda>
repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(),
File "/usr/share/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 525, in _getRepoXML
return YumRepository._getRepoXML(self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1447, in _getRepoXML
self._loadRepoXML(text=self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1437, in _loadRepoXML
return self._groupLoadRepoXML(text, self._mdpolicy2mdtypes())
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1412, in _groupLoadRepoXML
if self._commonLoadRepoXML(text):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1230, in _commonLoadRepoXML
result = self._getFileRepoXML(local, text)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1008, in _getFileRepoXML
size=102400) # setting max size as 100K
File "/usr/share/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 347, in _getFile
start, end, copy_local, checkfunc, text, reget, cache, size)
File "/usr/share/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 449, in _noExceptionWrappingGet
size = size
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 985, in urlgrab
return self._retry(opts, retryfunc, url, filename)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 886, in _retry
r = apply(func, (opts,) + args, {})
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 980, in retryfunc
apply(cb_func, (obj, )+cb_args, cb_kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1494, in _checkRepoXML
repoXML = repoMDObject.RepoMD(self.id, filepath)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repoMDObject.py", line 124, in __init__
self.parse(srcfile)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repoMDObject.py", line 140, in parse
parser = iterparse(infile)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/misc.py", line 1169, in cElementTree_iterparse
_cElementTree_import()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/misc.py", line 1164, in _cElementTree_import
import cElementTree
ImportError: No module named cElementTree
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
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