[Mailman-Users] New installation, sol 7: ImportError: No module named _socket

[Richard Barrett]

At 15:18 24/01/2003, Stoyan Angelov wrote:
>hello all,
>
>i am trying to do a new install of Mailman 2.1 on a Solaris 7 x86 box,
>gcc 2.95.2, Python 2.2.2, sendmail. I get the following error while
>runnig the ./configure script:
>
><snip>
>hecking for mail wrapper group; i.e. --with-mail-gid... mail
>checking for CGI wrapper group; i.e. --with-cgi-gid... httpd
>checking for CGI extensions... no
>checking for --with-mailhost... no
>checking for --with-urlhost... no
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "conftest.py", line 2, in ?
>     from socket import *
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/socket.py", line 41, in ?
>     from _socket import *
>ImportError: No module named _socket
>checking for default mail host name... Can't open conftest.out

Look like a python installation problem rather than a Mailman specific 
problem. The python interpreter is saying it cannot correctly load the 
standard python socket module.

You can confirm this hypothesis by running python from the command line as 
follows:

mailman at mailman:/> python
Python 2.2.2 (#2, Jan 13 2003, 17:17:19)
[GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import socket
 >>>

If instead of the prompt you get an error message in response to import 
socket input, then it is definitely a python installation problem. Try 
again with Mailman after you have fixed the python problem.

>checking for default URL host component... Can't open conftest.out
>
>checking for strerror... yes
>checking for setregid... yes
>checking for syslog... yes
><snip>
>
>trying to do a make install gives me the following error:
>
><snip>
>Compiling /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py ...
>Compiling /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/versions.py ...
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "bin/update", line 47, in ?
>     from Mailman import Utils
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 35, in ?
>     import cgi
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/cgi.py", line 39, in ?
>     import urllib
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/urllib.py", line 26, in ?
>     import socket
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/socket.py", line 41, in ?
>     from _socket import *
>ImportError: No module named _socket
>make: *** [update] Error 1
><snip>
>
>does anyone have an idea of what could that be ?
>
>thank you for your time!
>
>Stoyan Angelov
>
>
>
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>Stoyan Angelov
>filibeto.org
>e-mail: s_angelov at filibeto.org
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