python 2.2 problem kills yum

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings list;

I posted a snippet about 36 hours ago, and no one has commented or 
offered to help.  So I'll post just the revelant piece again.

OS=linux-2.6.8-rc1-mm1 in a 1400mhz athlon

[root at coyote root]# python
Python 2.2.3 (#1, Oct 15 2003, 23:33:35)
[GCC 3.3.1 20030930 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.1-6)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import libxml2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in ?
    import libxml2mod
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined 
symbol: xmlByteConsumed
>>>
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This python install has been verified by various means many times and 
found to be good by all the tools rpm has at its disposal.  Here are 
a few results:

[root at coyote root]# rpm -qa |grep libxml2
libxml2-python-2.6.6-3
libxml2-2.6.6-3
libxml2-devel-2.6.6-3
[root at coyote root]# rpm -qV libxml2-python-2.6.6-3
[root at coyote root]# rpm -qV libxml2-2.6.6-3
[root at coyote root]# rpm -qV libxml2-devel-2.6.6-3
[root at coyote root]# rpm -qV python-2.2.3
[root at coyote root]#

It's killng any app that uses python here. What can I do to fix this?

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, 
Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved.