On Mon, Jul 28, 2014, at 02:25 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:14:28 -0400
Barry <txscope(a)fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Barry wrote:
> > I installed Fedora 20 yesterday, and after the installation was
> > done, I installed a few packages successfully and then updated all
> > the packages, and then shut down
> >
> > Today when I first turned on the machine, I tried installing the
> > remaining stuff I want, and I got a python error, to wit:
> >
> > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/i18n.py", line 1
> > SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xfb' in file
> > /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/i18n.py on line 2, but no
> > encoding declared; see
http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for
> > details
> >
> > I took a look at i18n.py, and it's a binary file, which couldn't be
> > right.
> >
> > There's no i18n.pyo, but there is a i18n.pyc.
> >
> > It seems to me I might be able to reinstall python from the rpm,
> > but I'm not sure about this.
> >
> > Thanks for any help
> >
> >
>
> I should have said reinstall yum, and I tried that after finding
> yum-3.4.3-152.fc20.noarch.rpm but rpm failed to unpack the archive.
Can you provide the full output from the reinstall?
It does sound like there's some disk corruption going on. :(
That i18n.py definitely should not be a binary.
kevin
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Thanks, and sure:
# rpm -ivh --replacepkgs yum-3.4.3-152.fc20.noarch.rpm
Preparing...
################\
################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
1:yum-3.4.3-152.fc20
################\
################# [100%]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum\
/igroups.pyc: cpio: rename failed - Input/output error
error: yum-3.4.3-152.fc20.noarch: install failed
Then, I wanted to check the file attr:
# lsattr /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/igroups.pyc
lsattr: Input/output error while trying to stat
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-package\
s/yum/igroups.pyc
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