Sudo yum seems to fail on CentOS, but works fine after sudo -i

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Published on 2010-04-27T15:31:16Z Indexed on 2012/03/24 11:31 UTC
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I am currently having some trouble with yum through sudo. For some reason, it does not seem to work:

aron@graviton [/var/log]# sudo 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/lib64/python2.4/lib-dynload/datetime.so: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory

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  3 2009, 15:37:37)
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)]

If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
the yum faq at:
  http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq

The strange thing, however, is that it works fine when I gain root privileges through sudo -i first.

Any ideas what might be causing this problem?

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