broken YUM after removal of nss-softokn-freebl [SOLVED]

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Centos 6.5 64bit

After some recent updates discovered that package nss-softokn-freebl is always showing for “to be updated”. When trying to install it throws an error.
So I have removed it via console rpm command.
Now it has broken Yum and wont install anything (File /usr/lib64/libfreebl3.so is missing). This .so file is part of nss-softokn-freebl-3.14.3-3.el6_4.x86_64 and nss-softokn-freebl-3.14.3-3.el6_4.i686 packages.

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

libfreebl3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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:
2.6.6 (r266:84292, Nov 22 2013, 12:16:22)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4)]

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

Yum on “yum update” throws messages like this (variables are not getting recognised?):

yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
http://SERIALNUMBER:LICENSEKEY@software.virtualmin.com/gpl/rhel/%24releasever/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - “The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found”
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: virtualmin. Please verify its path and try again

Python is 2.6.6 version and it seems to be working.
How do i fix it to the way it was?
Thanks a lot

PS. just noticed it also done something to the mail over this! Mail does not work anymore - probably mail has some dependancies to this package! Please help to restore it?

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Howdy,

You could always try manually downloading the .rpm file for that package onto your server, and then installing it using RPM. You can install that by using a command such as the following:

rpm -Uvh filename.rpm

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after reboot I can’t even login
this shared library is missing and this is what I get after reboot:

login name: after typing the name in it shows this:
/bin/login error while loading shared libraries libfreebl3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Is it finished now? Or is there a way to restore it?
I’m pretty sure I have this file in the system in a different location and could try and copy it, just don’t know how to get to the system ;(

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Howdy,

You could boot your system into single user mode, which doesn’t require a login, and then install the package you’re missing using the steps I mentioned above.

There’s instructions on booting into single user mode here:

http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-rescuemode-booting-single.html

-Eric

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WOW! fantastic
I have managed to boot up in single mode, copy that file (libfreebl3.so) from /usr/lib64/xulrunner-10 in to
/usr/lib64 and now have managed to get to the system!
Thanks andreychek!