yum broken - critical issue

[Nishant80]

Hello,
I am not sure what exactly happened, but I am not able to run yum. Whenever I do anything that starts with yum, it will throw this error:

[email protected] [~]# yum
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

   libsasl2.so.2: 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:
2.6.6 (r266:84292, Feb 22 2013, 00:00:18) 
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3)]

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

I reckon someone told me that it is a memory issue, however the server has 24GB RAM and hardly 5GB is being used right now. Your guidance is highly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

I have seen instances where this issue is resolved by temporarily disabling the virtual memory limit on the OS with the following command:

ulimit -v unlimited

Thank you.