How to repair yum when yum fails to execute properly due to system being broken
Issue
- The system is broken due to missing/tampered/corrupted libraries and needs to be repaired from Rescue mode
- After booting the system in Rescue mode using the DVD and entering the chroot, yum doesn't work due to system libraries being broken
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- yum
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