Re-installing yum is definitely the first thing you should try, but, afterwards, make sure you investigate what might have caused the whole issue. Why is the i18n yum module missing?

In order to re-install yum use the following rpm command directly as root:

rpm --force --replacepkgs <url_to_yum.rpm>

Hope this helps

As you appear to be quite a yum wizard, hopefully you can point me in the right direction here. For my CentOS system I have been updating things via yum through Webmin for quite a while – and never had an issue till today. After realizing that the system was still sitting on the same “updating” page for two hours I restarted it — and then found all sorts of problems. I can login via an SSH terminal from another system on the network or get there via webmin, but the monitor on the server itself never gets to a login – just a spinning cursor. What I see from webmin or a terminal window when I run yum is an error – found a few posts on it too, but nothing as a clear fix.

[root@trailrunner yum]# yum clean all
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/yum”, line 28, in ?
import yummain
File “/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py”, line 29, in ?
import cli
File “/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py”, line 30, in ?
import output
File “/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py”, line 26, in ?
from i18n import _
ImportError: No module named i18n
[root@trailrunner yum]#

Though I use to work at the Command line regularly, those skills are rusty these days. I suspect that I should try reinstalling Yum directly – but not entirely sure how to do that, and what I should blow out prior to doing that which might also get the server unstuck.

Truly hoping you have a suggestion.