Any yum command fails with "problem importing one of the Python modules , /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_sqlitecache.so: undefined symbol: g_string_chunk_insert_len" error.

Issue

• Any yum command fails with the following error :-

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

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

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, Sep 17 2008, 16:04:01)
[GCC 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-41)]