[27603] in Athena Bugs
Re: python from /usr/athena/bin broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Fri Sep 28 23:50:18 2012
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 23:50:15 -0400
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To: Camilla R Fox <cfox@mit.edu>
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Yes, this broke with Python 2.7, because Ubuntu decided to be clever, while we were also trying to be clever. See http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/ticket/1126
We should probably just implement the workaround in the last comment.
-Jon
On Sep 28, 2012, at 10:36 PM, Camilla R Fox wrote:
> /usr/athena/bin/python is broken on my newly installed precise workstation:
>
> [cfox@RED-HERRING]tmp$ cat hello.py
> #!/usr/athena/bin/python
>
> print "hello world"
> [cfox@RED-HERRING]tmp$ ./hello.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/athena/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 562, in <module>
> main()
> File "/usr/athena/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 544, in main
> known_paths = addusersitepackages(known_paths)
> File "/usr/athena/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 271, in addusersitepackages
> user_site = getusersitepackages()
> File "/usr/athena/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 246, in getusersitepackages
> user_base = getuserbase() # this will also set USER_BASE
> File "/usr/athena/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 236, in getuserbase
> USER_BASE = get_config_var('userbase')
> File "/usr/athena/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.py", line 577, in get_config_var
> return get_config_vars().get(name)
> File "/usr/athena/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.py", line 476, in get_config_vars
> _init_posix(_CONFIG_VARS)
> File "/usr/athena/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.py", line 355, in _init_posix
> raise IOError(msg)
> IOError: invalid Python installation: unable to open /usr/athena/local/include/python2.7/pyconfig.h (No such file or directory)
>
> It should either work or not exist.
>
> -Camilla
