Server :: Yum Broken - While The Update Was In Progress My SSH Connection Got Disconnected

I logged on to one of my servers and ran a yum update, while the update was in progress my SSH connection got disconnected.

I logged in through a new connection when connectivity was restored and looked at running processes. It looked like yum was hung so I killed it (big mistake and one I won't repeat).

Now, when I try and run yum, I get the following:

Quote:

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

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:

If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to the yum faq at:[url]

I have tried hunting around for the correct version of libelf without much luck.

Is there anything I can do to get yum working again?

The server is running Centos 5.2