[27605] in Athena Bugs
Re: python from /usr/athena/bin broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Mon Oct 1 16:16:42 2012
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 16:16:38 -0400
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To: Camilla R Fox <cfox@mit.edu>
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It turns out this workaround no longer works. We have documented the issue, and there's nothing more we can do at this time, as Python makes too many assumptions about its location in the filesystem. However, we believe this has been fixed in Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal).
-Jon
On Sep 28, 2012, at 11:50 PM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> 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
>
>
