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/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_sqlitecache.so: undefined symbol: g_assert_warning

Problem

While upgrading a CentOS 4.5 to CentOS 5.*, yum starts to fail with

/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_sqlitecache.so: undefined symbol: g_assert_warning

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:
2.4.3 (#1, May 24 2008, 13:47:28)
[GCC 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-14)]

Reason

The reason was that the glib2 package hadn’t been updated at the same time as the yum and python packages, since they only required glib2 and not a specific version.

Solution

So the solution was to upgrade glib2 manually with the rpm command after which yum worked again.

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5 Responses to “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_sqlitecache.so: undefined symbol: g_assert_warning”

  1. Weedar says:
    October 16, 2008 at 22:43

    Thanks for this one, I got the same error and yours was the only mention
    I could find online. And it worked ;-)

  2. Matt says:
    October 29, 2008 at 22:17

    Ditto. This solved my problem too. Thanks for the post.

  3. phil says:
    February 5, 2009 at 17:02

    thank you! you saved my day ! ;) thank you CentOS and your soso documentation

  4. Update RHEL4 AS U 4 to CentOS 5.3 « Vallard Land says:
    August 25, 2009 at 23:47

    [...] 4.  Basically everything else works.   I also recommend that you install ’strace’ as you can then see what is wrong.  For example, I had to find all those extra packages by running strace to see which library was missing.  I also found out that I needed to add the glibc2 package thanks to this handy post here. [...]

  5. vallard says:
    August 25, 2009 at 23:48

    thanks, I just ran into this problem in my own howto: http://benincosa.org/blog/?p=12

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