[Mailman-Users] ImportError: No module named _md5

[Helmut Schneider]

From: "Mark Sapiro" <msapiro at value.net>

> Helmut Schneider wrote:
>>I'm running mailman 2.1.9 chrooted. Recently FreeBSD switched from
> Python2.4 to Python2.5 as default. As an effect mailman won't start
> anymore using Python2.5:
>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 107, in <module>
>> from Mailman import Utils
>> File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 32, in <module>
>> import sha
>> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/sha.py", line 6, in <module>
>> from hashlib import sha1 as sha
>> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/hashlib.py", line 133, in <module>
>> md5 = __get_builtin_constructor('md5')
>> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/hashlib.py", line 60, in
>>__get_builtin_constructor
>> import _md5
>>ImportError: No module named _md5
>>What did I miss? I suspect that some additional files need to be copied to
>>the jail but which ones? Using Python2.4 mailman still works fine.
> I had a similar if not the identical problem when I upgraded from
> python 2.4 to 2.5 on a test system under cygwin (no chroot).
> It turned out that Python 2.4 had been installed with prefix = /usr
> (library in /usr/lib/python2.4) and Python 2.5 was installed with
> prefix = /usr/local (library in /usr/local/lib/python2.5).
> I think I could have fixed it with a few symlinks, but I wound up
> removing and reinstalling python 2.5 with prefix = /usr.
> Perhaps this will help you figure out what you need to do.

It helped, yes, but I don't know how to solve it :)

When I start mailman non-chrooted python requests md5.py while when chrooted
it tries to access _md5.py. That only happens with md5, e.g. sha1 is not
effected.

[root at BSDHelmut ~]# ktrace -id /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailman start
Site list is missing: mailman
[root at BSDHelmut ~]# kdump -sf ./ktrace.out | grep md5
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/md5"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/md5.so"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/md5module.so"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/md5.py"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/md5.pyc"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/md5"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/md5.so"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/md5module.so"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/md5.py"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/md5.pyc"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/md5"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/md5.so"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/md5module.so"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/md5.py"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/md5.pyc"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/bin/md5"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/bin/md5.so"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/bin/md5module.so"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/bin/md5.py"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/bin/md5.pyc"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/md5"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/md5.so"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/md5module.so"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/md5.py"
 22569 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/md5.pyc"
[root at BSDHelmut ~]# ktrace -id /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailman-chroot start
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 107, in <module>
    from Mailman import Utils
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 32, in <module>
    import sha
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/sha.py", line 6, in <module>
    from hashlib import sha1 as sha
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/hashlib.py", line 133, in <module>
    md5 = __get_builtin_constructor('md5')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/hashlib.py", line 60, in
__get_builtin_constructor
    import _md5
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/_md5.py", line 6, in <module>
    from hashlib import md5
ImportError: cannot import name md5
[root at BSDHelmut ~]# kdump -sf ./ktrace.out | grep md5
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/_md5"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/_md5.so"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/_md5module.so"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/_md5.py"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/_md5.pyc"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/_md5"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/_md5.so"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/_md5module.so"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/_md5.py"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/_md5.pyc"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/bin/_md5"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/bin/_md5.so"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/bin/_md5module.so"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/bin/_md5.py"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/mailman/bin/_md5.pyc"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/_md5"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/_md5.so"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/_md5module.so"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/_md5.py"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/_md5.pyc"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/_md5.pyc"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/_md5.pyc"
 22576 python2.5 NAMI  "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/_md5.py"
[root at BSDHelmut ~]#