Dear peak, I've been tearing my hair out on a installation issue I've been having. I've searched Google, I've searched the archives. I've been running setuptools on my OS X box for quite a while and it's been working great. However, moving on to my Debian (production) box has cause me considerable problems. It may be a Python issue, but I've tried Python 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 (and 2.6.1) and I keep getting the same error. Hopefully I've just missed something easy.

I've tried to install setuptools using apt-get without luck (gives me a non-describt error about failed installation) and using eggs:

chat4:/home/orbited# sh setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg Segmentation fault

gives me segmentation fault. I've switched to using from source in order to catch the exact error, and I've boiled it down to:

chat4:/home/orbited/setuptools-0.6c9# python2.6 -dv easy_install.py install [...] Quite a long output [...] # /home/orbited/setuptools-0.6c9/setuptools/dist.pyc matches /home/ orbited/setuptools-0.6c9/setuptools/dist.py import setuptools.dist # precompiled from /home/orbited/ setuptools-0.6c9/setuptools/dist.pyc Segmentation fault

On Python2.6, 2.5 and 2.4. Verifying the problem on 2.5:

chat4:/home/orbited/setuptools-0.6c9# python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 4 2009, 17:40:26) [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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import setuptools.dist

Segmentation fault

On 2.6:

chat4:/home/orbited/setuptools-0.6c9# python2.6 Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jan 20 2009, 07:59:19) [GCC 4.3.1] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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import setuptools.dist

Segmentation fault

I must be missing something vital, using more debug flags gives me:

import setuptools.dist # precompiled from /home/orbited/ setuptools-0.6c9/setuptools/dist.pyc # trying /home/orbited/setuptools-0.6c9/setuptools/depends.so # trying /home/orbited/setuptools-0.6c9/setuptools/dependsmodule.so # trying /home/orbited/setuptools-0.6c9/setuptools/depends.py Segmentation fault

Can anyone think of anything that would share some light on this issue?

Regards, Niklas