Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 registration is failing with "ImportError: /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/_xmlplus/parsers/pyexpat.so: symbol XML_SetHashSalt, version EXPAT_2_0_1_RH not defined in file libexpat.so.1 with link time reference"
Issue
- Unable to register system when trying to execute rhn_register
- System registration to satellite via bootstrap script fails with below mentioned traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/rhn_register", line 26, in <module>
from up2date_client import tui
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/tui.py", line 29, in <module>
import rhnreg, hardware
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnreg.py", line 14, in <module>
import dbus
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/__init__.py", line 100, in <module>
from dbus._dbus import Bus, SystemBus, SessionBus, StarterBus
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 46, in <module>
from dbus.bus import BusConnection
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 46, in <module>
from dbus.connection import Connection
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 42, in <module>
from dbus.proxies import ProxyObject
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 35, in <module>
from dbus._expat_introspect_parser import process_introspection_data
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/_expat_introspect_parser.py", line 26, in <module>
from xml.parsers.expat import ExpatError, ParserCreate
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/_xmlplus/parsers/expat.py", line 4, in <module>
from pyexpat import *
ImportError: /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/_xmlplus/parsers/pyexpat.so: symbol XML_SetHashSalt, version EXPAT_2_0_1_RH not defined in file libexpat.so.1 with link time reference
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
- python-2.6.6-29.el6_2.2.x86_64.rpm
- python-libs-2.6.6-29.el6_2.2.x86_64.rpm
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