I hit an error when running yum update on my centOS 7, the command failed
to update my OS!
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| # yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Determining fastest mirrors
* base: centos.gbeservers.com
* epel: linux.mirrors.es.net
* extras: linux.mirrors.es.net
* ius: hkg.mirror.rackspace.com
* updates: mirror.atlantic.net
File "/usr/libexec/urlgrabber-ext-down", line 28
except OSError, e:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
File "/usr/libexec/urlgrabber-ext-down", line 28
except OSError, e:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
File "/usr/libexec/urlgrabber-ext-down", line 28
except OSError, e:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
File "/usr/libexec/urlgrabber-ext-down", line 28
except OSError, e:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
File "/usr/libexec/urlgrabber-ext-down", line 28
except OSError, e:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Exiting on user cancel
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Looks like something is wrong with the system. After some research, I notice
the root cause is the missmatch of python version. ‘yum’ command need python 2.7
on /usr/bin/python symbol link, which I changed to python 3.6 before.
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| # head /usr/bin/yum
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
try:
import yum
except ImportError:
print >> sys.stderr, """\
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
%s
# ll /usr/bin/python*
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Jul 27 2017 python -> python3.6
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Jul 26 2017 python2 -> python2.7
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 7136 Nov 6 2016 python2.7
-rwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 11312 Apr 7 2017 python3.6
-rwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 11312 Apr 7 2017 python3.6m
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The workaround is to change the first line of /usr/bin/yum to use python2