Hi All
yum broken after updating rpm.rte from 4.15.1.1013 to 4.15.1.1016 on AIX 7200-05-06-2320. Below is the error.

There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

   rtld: 0712-001 Symbol lua_newuserdata was referenced
      from module /usr/opt/rpm/lib/librpmio.so(), but a runtime definition
      of the symbol was not found.

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:
2.7.18 (default, Dec 15 2022, 05:12:43)
[GCC 8.3.0]

If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
the yum faq at:
  http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq

root@nim:/home/root> rpm -qa |grep lua
lua-5.4.6-1.ppc
root@nim:/home/root>

Thanks

An LPAR here had the same issue after applying the security fix https://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/rpm_fix3.tar

Recommend making a mksysb backup in case a restore is needed.

Rolling back to rpm.rte 4.15.1.1013 allowed yum to work again. It is not a good fix since the roll back enables the security issue but until a fix for the RPM update issue is fixed at least yum will work.

ls -l 

rpm.rte.4.15.1.1013

installp -aXYFd . rpm

Not a fix for the security issue but can make yum usable again on an LPAR.

Stan