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Old 04-07-2009, 06:31 PM   #1
BrianK
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python broken after update on lenny... seems to be related to distutils.extension. ??


To be honest, I can't say for sure that the update is what broke things, but the short version of a long story is this:

had trac running on a webserver running Lenny.
did an apt-get update & upgrade
trac stopped working: Error 500 (Internal server error).
Checked all configs, rechecked configs, checked error logs & saw a TypeError:

Code:
...
[Tue Apr 07 16:09:03 2009] [error] [client 10.4.1.97]   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Pyrex/Distutils/extension.py", line 30, in Extension\n    """
[Tue Apr 07 16:09:03 2009] [error] [client 10.4.1.97] TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'str'
Looked at extension.py & saw that line 30 is the last line of the docstring that looks something like:

Code:
import distutils.extension as _Extension
...
class Extension(_Extension.Extension):
    _Extension.Extension.__doc__ + \
    """pyrex_include_dirs : [string]
        list of directories to search for Pyrex header files (.pxd) (in
        Unix form for portability)
    pyrex_create_listing_file : boolean
        write pyrex error messages to a listing (.lis) file.
    pyrex_cplus : boolean
        use the C++ compiler for compiling and linking.
    pyrex_c_in_temp : boolean
        put generated C files in temp directory.
    pyrex_gen_pxi : boolean
        generate .pxi file for public declarations
    """   # This is line 30
If I comment out the "_Extension.Extension.__doc__ + \", trac stops the 500, but it does not display the header (where all the links are).

If I open a python shell, even after doing an "unsetenv PYTHONPATH", I can do this:

Code:
web:~>python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan  4 2009, 21:59:32)
[GCC 4.3.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import distutils.extension as _Extension
>>> _Extension.Extension.__doc__
'Just a collection of attributes that describes an extension\n    module
....
At this point, I'm a bit stumped. Anyone have this issue or know what it's related to (and how to solve it )?
 
Old 04-19-2009, 02:49 AM   #2
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I recently was having some problems with some programs that depended upon various python packages. I dpkg-reconfigured each one of these dependencies, and the programs once again worked. So, maybe this would work with you as well. I don't know if wild-cards work, but if so, that could make things easier (IE, dpkg-reconfigure python-* ), since most of the python dependencies for Trac seem to be named python hyphen something. Anyway, other than that shot in the dark suggestion, I have no clue as to what the issue is here.

Last edited by mark_alfred; 04-19-2009 at 02:50 AM.
 
  


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