yum fails with traceback "AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPSHandler'"
Issue
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yum generates the follow traceback:
# yum Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 4, in ? import yum File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 49, in ? import config File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 27, in ? from parser import ConfigPreProcessor File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/parser.py", line 3, in ? import urlgrabber File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/__init__.py", line 53, in ? from grabber import urlgrab, urlopen, urlread File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 412, in ? import keepalive File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/keepalive.py", line 339, in ? class HTTPSHandler(KeepAliveHandler, urllib2.HTTPSHandler): AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPSHandler'
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
- yum
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