Why yum segfaults in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6?

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • Why yum segfaults in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ?. From the log
Feb 24 09:33:36 XXXX kernel: python[18710]: segfault at 7fcf00000000 ip 00007fcfc784f170 sp 00007fff47c26258 error 4 in libc-2.12.so[7fcfc7726000+18a000]
  • yum list,yum update and yum install fails and coredumps in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 update 2
  • yum-3.2.29-22.el6.noarch
  • python-2.6.6-29.el6_2.2.x86_64

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