rhnreg_ks fails with "ImportError: /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined symbol: xmlXPathContextSetCache" error
Issue
- rhnreg_ks fails with following error:
# rhnreg_ks --username=<RHN username> --password="<RHN Password>" --force
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks", line 29, in ?
from up2date_client import rhnreg
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnreg.py", line 21, in ?
import hardware
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/hardware.py", line 25, in ?
import dbus
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/dbus/__init__.py", line 1, in ?
from _dbus import *
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 48, in ?
from proxies import *
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 2, in ?
import introspect_parser
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/dbus/introspect_parser.py", line 1, in ?
import libxml2
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in ?
import libxml2mod
ImportError: /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined symbol: xmlXPathContextSetCache
- rhn_register throws the error:
ImportError: /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined symbol: xmlShellPrintXPathError
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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