osad service startup fails with "undefined symbol: XML_StopParser" error

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Issue

  • osad fails to start
  • unable to start osad service on the system
  • "undefined symbol: XML_StopParser" error during start of osad service:
[root@example ~]# service osad start
Starting osad: Unable to load module osad
/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/_xmlplus/parsers/pyexpat.so: undefined symbol: XML_StopParser                           [FAILED]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • osad

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