importing site fails - why?

[Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens]

Am 12.11.2010 20:24, schrieb Helmut Jarausch:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:42:46 +0100, Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote:
>
>> Am 12.11.2010 19:32, schrieb Helmut Jarausch:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> as often before, I've cloned a working system (GenToo) onto another
>>> machine. There, from a livecd and chroot to the cloned root partition
>>>
>>> python -v
>>> import site
>>>
>>> fails with the following error
>>> Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Oct 13 2010, 09:06:24) [GCC 4.4.4] on linux2
>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> dlopen("/usr/lib64/python2.6/lib-dynload/readline.so", 2); import
>>> readline # dynamically loaded from /usr/lib64/python2.6/lib-
>>> dynload/readline.so
>>>>>> import site
>>> # /usr/lib64/python2.6/site.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.6/site.py
>>> import site # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.6/site.pyc Traceback
>>> (most recent call last):
>>>     File "<stdin>", line 1, in<module>
>>>     File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site.py", line 526, in<module>
>>>       main()
>>>     File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site.py", line 509, in main
>>>       known_paths = addsitepackages(known_paths)
>>>     File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site.py", line 289, in addsitepackages
>>>       addsitedir(sitedir, known_paths)
>>>     File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site.py", line 185, in addsitedir
>>>       addpackage(sitedir, name, known_paths)
>>>     File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site.py", line 159, in addpackage
>>>       if not dircase in known_paths and os.path.exists(dir):
>>>     File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/genericpath.py", line 18, in exists
>>>       st = os.stat(path)
>>> TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be encoded string without NULL bytes,
>>> not str
>>>>>> ​
>>> I'm puzzled and I'd appreciate any hints to the reason for this
>>> failure.
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Helmut.
>> You gave the answer yourself.
>> Chrooting does not automatically mean your SO cache is where it should
>> be for the target system.
>> Perhaps your livecd is newer/older than the target system or simply the
>> python in live environment
>> is not (most likely) compiled as the one in the target system.
>>
> It has been working dozens of time!
> Are you saying, an  ldconfig  would rectify the situation?
>
> Unfortunately, I can only test it on monday.
>
> Thanks,
> Helmut.
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It works as long as the so files are close enough in the way they were 
built,
the symbols they expose and the versions they have.
calling ldconfig _can_ help, but this is not for sure.
You can of course try to call

ldd /usr/bin/python (or where it lives)
and
ldd /usr/lib64/python2.6/lib-dynload/readline.so

to see if there is something abviously wrong.

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