rhnreg_ks fails with "ImportError: /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined symbol: xmlXPathContextSetCache" error

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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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