Yum commands error "pycurl.so: undefined symbol: CRYPTO_set_locking_callback"

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Issue

  • When I run yum, following error occurs:

    [root@host tmp]# yum check update
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pycurl.so: undefined symbol: CRYPTO_set_locking_callback

Please install a package which provides this module, or
verify that the module is installed correctly.

It's possible that the above module doesn't match the
current version of Python, which is:
2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep  4 2013, 07:46:00)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3)]

If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
the yum faq at:
http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq

Resolution

  • Check and fix the related library paths or remove 3rd party libraries, usually libcurl or libssh2. On a x86_64 system, the standard paths for those libraries are /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4 and /usr/lib64/libssh2.so.1

Root Cause

  • One or more third party libraries have been installed.

    # ldconfig -p -N -X | grep curl
libcurl.so.4 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4
libcurl.so.4 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4
libcurl.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/libcurl.so

    # ldconfig -p -N -X | grep ssh
libssh2.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib/libssh2.so.1
libssh2.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib64/libssh2.so.1
libssh2.so (libc6,x86-64) => /lib/libssh2.so

Diagnostic Steps

  • Look at the library dependencies using the ldd tool. You can notice that pycurl.so requires libcurl.so.4, which requires libssh2.so.1, which requires libcrypto.so.10 from the OpenSSL library. This last one provides the missing symbol:

    # nm -D /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.10 | grep -i CRYPTO_set_locking_callback
000000000006a2e0 T CRYPTO_set_locking_callback

  • Output of ldd command in normal system.

    # ldd /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pycurl.so
linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff9cb7f000)
libcurl.so.4 => /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4 (0x00007fc35da43000)  <<--- proper path
libpython2.6.so.1.0 => /usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0 (0x00007fc35d69d000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fc35d47f000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007fc35d0eb000)
libidn.so.11 => /lib64/libidn.so.11 (0x00007fc35ceb9000)
libldap-2.4.so.2 => /lib64/libldap-2.4.so.2 (0x00007fc35cc68000)
librt.so.1 => /lib64/librt.so.1 (0x00007fc35ca60000)
libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x00007fc35c81c000)
libkrb5.so.3 => /lib64/libkrb5.so.3 (0x00007fc35c535000)
libk5crypto.so.3 => /lib64/libk5crypto.so.3 (0x00007fc35c309000)
libcom_err.so.2 => /lib64/libcom_err.so.2 (0x00007fc35c105000)
libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007fc35beee000)
libssl3.so => /usr/lib64/libssl3.so (0x00007fc35bcaf000)
libsmime3.so => /usr/lib64/libsmime3.so (0x00007fc35ba83000)
libnss3.so => /usr/lib64/libnss3.so (0x00007fc35b743000)
libnssutil3.so => /usr/lib64/libnssutil3.so (0x00007fc35b517000)
libplds4.so => /lib64/libplds4.so (0x00007fc35b313000)
libplc4.so => /lib64/libplc4.so (0x00007fc35b10d000)
libnspr4.so => /lib64/libnspr4.so (0x00007fc35aecf000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fc35accb000)
libssh2.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libssh2.so.1 (0x00007fc35aaa2000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib64/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fc35a89f000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007fc35a61b000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003369800000)
liblber-2.4.so.2 => /lib64/liblber-2.4.so.2 (0x00007fc35a40b000)
libresolv.so.2 => /lib64/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007fc35a1f1000)
libsasl2.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libsasl2.so.2 (0x00007fc359fd7000)
libkrb5support.so.0 => /lib64/libkrb5support.so.0 (0x00007fc359dcb000)
libkeyutils.so.1 => /lib64/libkeyutils.so.1 (0x00007fc359bc8000)
libssl.so.10 => /usr/lib64/libssl.so.10 (0x00007fc35995b000)
libcrypto.so.10 => /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.10 (0x00007fc359578000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib64/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00007fc359341000)
libselinux.so.1 => /lib64/libselinux.so.1 (0x00007fc359121000)
libfreebl3.so => /lib64/libfreebl3.so (0x00007fc358ea8000)

  • Output of ldd command in problematic system.

    # ldd /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pycurl.so
linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff973ff000)
libcurl.so.4 => /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4 (0x00007fe0691d1000) <<<----- might be changed.
libpython2.6.so.1.0 => /usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0 (0x00007f110b8af000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fc35d47f000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007fc35d0eb000)
librt.so.1 => /lib64/librt.so.1 (0x00007fc35ca60000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fc35accb000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib64/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fc35a89f000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007fc35a61b000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003369800000)

  • Do an strace on the yum command, you'll probably see it pointing to the problem package or file, like:

    open("/usr/lib/libcurl.so.4", O_RDONLY) = 9

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