Hi, Run the command "xm dmesg" and you will get a an error message about a missing class called "FakeSocket". Some googling reveiled, that this class could have been masked deprecated since 2007 (shame on upstream) and it might have been removed in python 2.6. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
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I have pyython-2.6 installed and am running Xen without the problem reported below. I do get a warning when running xm commands but otherwise no problems: /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/util/acmpolicy.py:20: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha If python was upgraded to 2.6 after you installed xen did you run the python-updater script?
(In reply to comment #2) > I have pyython-2.6 installed and am running Xen without the problem reported > below. I do get a warning when running xm commands but otherwise no problems: > > /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/util/acmpolicy.py:20: > DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module > instead > import sha > > If python was upgraded to 2.6 after you installed xen did you run the > python-updater script? Yes, and xen-tools was re-emerged. Since that time, it doesn't run anymore. If I select python 2.5 again (via eselect) and re-emerge xen-tools, then it works again.
# cat test.py from httplib import FakeSocket # python2.6 test.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "test.py", line 1, in <module> from httplib import FakeSocket ImportError: cannot import name FakeSocket # python2.5 test.py (no error message) My python use-flags may be relevant: # emerge python -vp These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r1 USE="ncurses readline threads xml -berkdb -build -doc -examples -gdbm -ipv6 -sqlite -ssl -tk -ucs2 -wininst" 0 kB I also took a look at the httplib.py of python 2.6. It seems, that FakeSocket depends on some import of ssl. Enabling the SSL use-flag for python fixed the problem for me.
Hmm, looks like xen-tools needs a dependency change
+ 19 Aug 2009; Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> xen-tools-3.4.1.ebuild: + Changing python dep (use=ssl) for #279917
