Python does not work after patch the server

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9

Issue

  • After applying yum upgrade to python, python-2.4.3-46.el5 was replaced by python-2.4.3-56.el5.
  • Now web pages fail, and errors are logged into httpd error logs.

Resolution

  • This is a known issue, this errata fixes the problem.

Diagnostic Steps

  • Below errors from /etc/httpd/logs/error_log, when tried to access the web page:

[Tue Mar 05 17:41:54 2013] [error] make_obcallback: could not import mod_python.apache.\n
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mod_python/apache.py", line 29, in ?
    import cgi
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/cgi.py", line 40, in ?
    import mimetools
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/mimetools.py", line 6, in ?
    import tempfile
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/tempfile.py", line 33, in ?
    from random import Random as _Random
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/random.py", line 46, in ?
    from os import urandom as _urandom
ImportError: cannot import name urandom
[Tue Mar 05 17:41:54 2013] [error] make_obcallback: Python path being used "['/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/modwind-0.9.5-py2.4.egg', '/usr/lib/python24.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.4', '/usr/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Numeric', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0']".
[Tue Mar 05 17:41:54 2013] [error] get_interpreter: no interpreter callback found.

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