Bootstrap call to install python27 looks to have an issue with some existing packages

[nf3]

here is the error log from a recent mrjob run on AWS

• __mrjob_PWD=/mnt/var/lib/bootstrap-actions/1
• hadoop fs -copyToLocal s3://mrjob-37729144d3df0ca8/tmp/batct2.nproctor.20150512.100017.580919/files/get-pip.py /mnt/var/lib/bootstrap-actions/1/get-pip.py
  15/05/12 10:17:51 INFO fs.EmrFileSystem: Created AmazonS3 with InstanceProfileCredentialsProvider
  15/05/12 10:17:51 INFO fs.EmrFileSystem: Opening 's3://mrjob-37729144d3df0ca8/tmp/batct2.nproctor.20150512.100017.580919/files/get-pip.py' for reading
• chmod a+x /mnt/var/lib/bootstrap-actions/1/get-pip.py
• hadoop fs -copyToLocal s3://mrjob-37729144d3df0ca8/tmp/batct2.nproctor.20150512.100017.580919/files/mrjob.tar.gz /mnt/var/lib/bootstrap-actions/1/mrjob.tar.gz
  15/05/12 10:17:53 INFO fs.EmrFileSystem: Created AmazonS3 with InstanceProfileCredentialsProvider
  15/05/12 10:17:54 INFO fs.EmrFileSystem: Opening 's3://mrjob-37729144d3df0ca8/tmp/batct2.nproctor.20150512.100017.580919/files/mrjob.tar.gz' for reading
• chmod a+x /mnt/var/lib/bootstrap-actions/1/mrjob.tar.gz
• sudo yum install -y python27 python27-devel gcc-c++

Transaction check error:
file /etc/init.d from install of chkconfig-1.3.49.3-2.14.amzn1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package EmrMetrics-1.0-1.noarch
file /etc/init.d from install of chkconfig-1.3.49.3-2.14.amzn1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package service-nanny-1.0-1.noarch
file /etc/init.d from install of chkconfig-1.3.49.3-2.14.amzn1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package instance-controller-1.0-1.noarch
file /etc/init.d from install of chkconfig-1.3.49.3-2.14.amzn1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package hadoop-state-pusher-1.0-1.noarch

Error Summary

[adrians2000]

You could try:
yum --releasever=2014.09 install -y python27 python27-devel gcc-c++