[gentoo-user] broken python howto

On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:06 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote:
> Hi, everyone
>
> I'm facing the following problem:
>
> emerge "<whatever>"
>
>
> !!! Failed to complete python imports. These are internal modules for
> !!! python and failure here indicates that you have a problem with
> python
> !!! itself and thus portage is not able to continue processing.
>
> !!! You might consider starting python with verbose flags to see what
> has
> !!! gone wrong. Here is the information we got for this exception:
> No module named time
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 28, in ?
> import portage
> File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 20, in ?
> import copy, errno, os, re, shutil, string, time, types
> ImportError: No module named time
>
>
> How could I fix this? I found an official "howto" on recovering broken
> portage but the problem here is with python, isn't it? I have no
> experience with python other than using the python based tools of
> Gentoo
> (such as portage itself) therefore I'm helpless.
>
> Any ideas and/or suggestions will be much appreciated.

First question: what did you do?

# python
Python 2.4.4 (#1, Jan 2 2007, 19:55:21)
[GCC 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
information.
>>> import time
>>> time.__file__
'/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/time.so'

Make sure that file exists and that the files that it links to exist.


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Kent Fredric wrote:
>
> The Last time i had one of those problems I cracked out an old binpkg
> I had lying around ( a lesson I learned a while back on freebsd when i
> had make,gcc and tar ALL break due to a common lib dying : moral of
> the story: always have static copies of tar/make/bz2 in binpkgs )
>
> I know its a nasty solution, but in times of desperation, a manual
> untarring of a binpkg into the right place will save you much anguish.
>
> I've not read of any other way to save that problem, other than
> hacking up a recent "snapshot" and copying the files into place.
>
> I'm sure theres a better answer than this, but I've yet to see it.


Thanks for the reply.

Yes, I keep this solutions as my last resort before full reinstall. I
just didn't want to take rash course of action before asking for advice
here.


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Albert Hopkins wrote:
>
> First question: what did you do?
>
> # python
> Python 2.4.4 (#1, Jan 2 2007, 19:55:21)
> [GCC 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
> information.
> >>> import time
> >>> time.__file__
> '/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/time.so'
>
> Make sure that file exists and that the files that it links to exist.
>
>
>


First of all thank you very much! )

Actually I don't know what happened yet. I have another system with the
same hardware, the same software configuration and almost the same world
file. The first thing I checked after your message was:

"ls -la /usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/"

on the broken system and it showed an empty dir. Next I made the same
check on the healthy system and it was full of files including
"time.so". So, I transfered the whole directory to the broken system and
now "emerge" works fine (at least at first glance).

Thanks again!



[OT]
Strange.
I did

"qfile time.so"

on the healthy system and it gave no results. Also I did

"qlist python | grep time.so"

and it gave no results either. I suspect something went wrong on both
systems but I'm not sure what and how to fix it.

Even more strange.
Before sending my question here I tried

"quickpkg python portage"

and extracted the contents of the archives in the root ("/") dir of the
broken system. This action didn't help. After your answer I checked the
contents of the packages made by "quickpkg":

localhost / # tar jtf python-2.4.3-r4.tbz2 | grep lib-dyn
../usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/

bzip2: (stdin): trailing garbage after EOF ignored

localhost / # tar jtf portage-2.1.1-r2.tbz2 | grep lib-dyn

bzip2: (stdin): trailing garbage after EOF ignored


It appears that python only creates this directory, but I can't figure
out which packages put files in it.

Is it normal?

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You didn't do something crazy like put "-static" in your CFLAGS did you?

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