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Bug 629262

Summary: dev-python/pyperclip-1.5.27 No protocol specified : cannot connect to X server :0
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Matthew Thode ( prometheanfire ) <prometheanfire>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: jstein, orzel, python, scott, supersonic112
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: build log

Description Helmut Jarausch 2017-08-29 09:45:36 UTC
Created attachment 491048 [details]
build log

dev-python/pyperclip-1.5.27 fails to build with 
No protocol specified : cannot connect to X server :0

emerge --info dev-python/pyperclip
Portage 2.3.8 (python 3.6.1-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, gcc-6.4.0, glibc-2.26, 4.12.9-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
                         System Settings
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-4.12.9-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X4_940_Processor-with-gentoo-2.4.1
KiB Mem:     7903452 total,    270284 free
KiB Swap:    4194300 total,   4194300 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 08:45:01 +0000
Head commit of repository gentoo: 11905d4b9c251079d16ba1a6fbb682e3f5eadb63
Head commit of repository java: 39866b0e5a7f40f48734b92bbe152c46f03c0104

Head commit of repository lisp: a5481acee743b37ed17c3c76df40163275c9d1a2

Head commit of repository octave: 5e79f9fa4276413e36f665ecc43e8a39e68d3b49

Head commit of repository palemoon: 444eca359683352ee58e5c88cfca16acbe11afbf

sh bash 4.4_p12
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.27 p1.1) 2.27
ccache version 3.3.4 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:          4.4_p12::gentoo
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0-r3::local
dev-lang/perl:            5.24.2::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.13::gentoo, 3.6.1-r1::gentoo
dev-util/ccache:          3.3.4-r1::gentoo
dev-util/cmake:           3.9.1::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.29.2::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.4.1-r1::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:          0.29::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.10-r4::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r4::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.9.6-r4::gentoo, 1.10.3-r2::gentoo, 1.11.6-r2::gentoo, 1.12.6-r1::gentoo, 1.13.4-r1::gentoo, 1.15.1-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.27-r1::gentoo, 2.28-r2::gentoo, 2.28.1::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            5.4.0-r3::gentoo, 6.3.0::gentoo, 6.4.0::gentoo, 7.2.0::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6-r4::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.2.1-r1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.11::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.26::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000

booboo
    location: /usr/local/portage/layman/booboo
    sync-type: laymansync
    sync-uri: https://github.com/l29ah/booboo.git
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

java
    location: /usr/local/portage/layman/java
    sync-type: git
    sync-uri: git://anongit.gentoo.org/proj/java.git
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

lisp
    location: /usr/local/portage/layman/lisp
    sync-type: git
    sync-uri: git://anongit.gentoo.org/proj/lisp.git
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

nx
    location: /usr/local/portage/layman/nx
    sync-type: laymansync
    sync-uri: https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/proj/nx.git
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

octave
    location: /usr/local/portage/layman/octave
    sync-type: git
    sync-uri: git://github.com/rafaelmartins/octave-overlay.git
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

palemoon
    location: /usr/local/portage/layman/palemoon
    sync-type: git
    sync-uri: https://github.com/deuiore/palemoon-overlay.git
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

science
    location: /usr/local/portage/layman/science
    sync-type: laymansync
    sync-uri: git://anongit.gentoo.org/proj/sci.git
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

seden
    location: /usr/local/portage/layman/seden
    sync-type: laymansync
    sync-uri: git://anongit.gentoo.org/user/seden.git
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

local
    location: /usr/local/portage
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 99

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -msse3 -pipe -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php7.1/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php7.1/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php7.1/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -msse3 -pipe -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync multilib-strict news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo "
LANG="en_US.iso88591"
LC_ALL=""
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext 3dnowprefetch X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 avahi berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fortran fuse gcj gdbm gfortran gif gimp glamor gpm gtk gtk3 iconv ipv6 jpeg lapack lcms libnotify mad mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds python qt qt3support qt4 qt5 readline sdl seccomp session smp spell sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 sse3 sse4a ssl startup-notification svg tcl tcpd threads tiff tk truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vorbis wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xml xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="3dnow mmx 3dnowext mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4a" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc multiboot" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev wacom" KERNEL="linux" L10N="en de" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en de" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-6" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres9_5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_6" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby24" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon radeonsi r600" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Comment 1 Matthew Thode ( prometheanfire ) archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2017-08-31 16:19:44 UTC
I tested this on a headless server with no issues with python3.6 as well (matching your log).

Do you have pyqt4 installed?  Even though this issue is fixed in the 1.5.27 it might mean something.  https://github.com/asweigart/pyperclip/issues/36 / https://github.com/asweigart/pyperclip/pull/38
Comment 2 Helmut Jarausch 2017-08-31 18:12:19 UTC
dev-python/PyQt4
Installed versions:  4.12.1{tbz2}(05:26:26 PM 07/23/2017)(X compat dbus declarative help opengl script sql svg webkit -debug -designer -doc -examples -kde -multimedia -phonon -scripttools -testlib -xmlpatterns PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 -python3_4 -python3_5")
Comment 3 Fabio Coatti 2017-08-31 19:56:49 UTC
Same issue here, pyqt4/5 installed

Portage 2.3.8 (python 3.4.6-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/plasma/systemd, gcc-6.3.0, glibc-2.25-r4, 4.12.8-cova x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-4.12.8-cova-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-3427U_CPU_@_1.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.4.1
KiB Mem:     8088500 total,   3272820 free
KiB Swap:    8388604 total,   8336380 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:00:01 +0000                                                              
Head commit of repository gentoo: 4a01c88b0889cd9de70cb165eb3bb2044ed680f7                                                   
sh bash 4.4_p12                                                                                                              
ld ld di GNU (Gentoo 2.27 p1.1) 2.27                                                                                         
distcc 3.2rc1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]                                                                                 
app-shells/bash:          4.4_p12::gentoo                                                                                    
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0-r3::gentoo                                                                                   
dev-lang/perl:            5.24.2::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.13::gentoo, 3.4.6::gentoo, 3.5.3::gentoo, 3.6.1-r1::gentoo
dev-util/cmake:           3.9.1::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.29.2::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.4.1-r1::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:          0.29::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.10-r4::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r4::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6-r2::gentoo, 1.12.6-r1::gentoo, 1.13.4-r1::gentoo, 1.14.1-r1::gentoo, 1.15.1-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.27-r1::gentoo, 2.28-r2::gentoo, 2.28.1::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            5.4.0-r3::gentoo, 6.3.0::gentoo, 6.4.0::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6-r4::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.2.1-r1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.11::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.25-r4::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000

kde
    location: /var/lib/layman/kde
    sync-type: laymansync
    sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo/kde.git
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

torbrowser
    location: /var/lib/layman/torbrowser
    sync-type: laymansync
    sync-uri: git://github.com/MeisterP/torbrowser-overlay.git
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

local
    location: /usr/overlay
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 51

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -fpie -fpic -pipe -march=native -fstack-protector-strong -flto=4 -fuse-linker-plugin"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/easy-rsa /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fpie -fpic -pipe -march=native -fstack-protector-strong -flto=4 -fuse-linker-plugin"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs clean-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync multilib-strict news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="it_IT.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -O2 -fpie -fpic -pipe -march=native -fstack-protector-strong -flto=4 -fuse-linker-plugin"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext 3dnowprefetch X \ a52 aac aalib acl acpi activities aim alsa amd64 apng ares asf ati audio audiofile avahi bash-completion berkdb bidi bl bluetooth branding bri bzip2 cairo caps cdda cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups curl cxx dba dbus declarative device-mapper dga divx divx4linux dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eap-sim edl egl emboss encode ethereal evdev exif expat faad fam fame fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gallium garmin gd gdbm gif gimp glamor gmedia gmp gnutls gphoto2 gpm gps gsm gtk h264 h323 iconv icq icu idn ifp ilbc imagemagick imap innodb ipod iproute2 ipv6 ithreads jabber java javascript joystick jpeg kde kipi kontact kvm kwallet lastfm lcms ldap libnotify libvirtd live lm_sensors lua lvm lxc lzma lzo mad maildir matroska mbox mdnsresponder-compat mhash mime mjpeg mmap mmx mmxext mng modules mozdevelop mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg msn mtp multilib mysql ncurses network networkmanager new-hpcups nfsv4 njb nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ofx ogg oggvorbis ogm openal openexr opengl openmp oscar pam pango parted pcap pcre pdf phonon php plasma plotutils png policykit ppds pulseaudio qemu qml qt3support qt5 readline real rtc ruby samba sasl sdl seccomp semantic-desktop semantic-destkop session sha512 sip slang slp smartcard sndfile snmp sox speex spell srt sse sse2 ssh ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg symlink systemd tcltk tcpd telepathy theora threads tiff tk tremor truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb utempter v4l v4l2 vaapi vcd vde vhosts video videos vim-syntax virt-network virtualbox vorbis vulkan wav wayland webkit widgets wifi wmf wmp wps wxwidgets wxwindows x264 xanim xattr xcb xcomposite xface xft xine xinerama xml xosd xpm xscreensaver xsl xv xvid zeroconf zlib zpm" ABI_X86="64 32" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" L10N="it en" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="it en" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php7-0" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres9_5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_4" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4 python3_5" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby21 ruby22 ruby23" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Comment 4 piotr5 2017-09-24 20:32:15 UTC
I too had this problem. seems installation requires a running and accessible xserver session since the setup.py is executing pyperclip in order to install it, it seems. with headless servers you need ssh -Y, but I tried compiling from chroot:

I restarted the system into admin-mode by adding "single" to the kernel parameters (can't have 2 servers on different chroots) and typing in my root-password. then I copied my kernel-modules to the chroot environment (not sure this is needed) and continued as described in the gentoo-docs for chrooting. in the target system I created .xinitrc and a bash-script "scriptname" for starting the compilation. from within .xinitrc I just execute "xterm scriptname" after making sure scriptname is a valid and executable bash-script (i.e. first line is "#!/bin/bash" and on commandline I do a "chmod a+x scriptname"). for good measure I added a "sleep 50" command at the end of said script. one startx later it's compiled and I could reboot the system to go back to my desktop-manager for whatever else I need to compile...
Comment 5 Erik 2017-10-09 13:56:30 UTC
I do have the same issue when trying to emerge dev-python/pyperclip-1.5.27 on a local system with a running X server.

 * python3_4: running distutils-r1_run_phase distutils-r1_python_compile
/usr/bin/python3.4 setup.py build
No protocol specified
: cannot connect to X server :0.0

I'm running the emerge within an xterm though....

So it does not only occur on remote sessions or headless systems.
Comment 6 Thomas Capricelli 2017-10-12 08:30:54 UTC
I got this error too
Comment 7 Renich Bon Ciric 2017-11-09 18:38:05 UTC
Same here.
Comment 8 Helmut Jarausch 2018-02-23 15:09:08 UTC
It looks like it has something to do with portage.
I managed to install pyperclip by the following STRANGE method.

After emerge dev-python/pyperclip has failed, I do

pushd /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/pyperclip-1.5.27/work/pyperclip-1.5.27
python setup.py install
touch /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/pyperclip-1.5.27/.compiled
ebuild ebuild /usr/portage/dev-python/pyperclip/pyperclip-1.5.27.ebuild merge

which seems to have worked OK.
Comment 9 Thomas Capricelli 2018-09-08 00:36:05 UTC
workaround from #8 doesn't work here, probably because ebuild... merge says :

...
>>> Remove '/usr/unsecure/tmp/portage/dev-python/pyperclip-1.5.27/.compiled' to force compile.
...


This bug has been reported very long ago, and pyperclip is a dependancy for lot of other stuff, i'm blocked on more and more servers...

It's especially weird, as I use X11Forwarding in ssh, and it works ( i can start x tools).
Comment 10 Thomas Capricelli 2018-09-08 00:56:32 UTC
I had both PyQt4 and PyQt5 installed. Unmerging them allowed me to successfully emerge pyperclip.

It's a hell of a workaround, both PyQt are huge package to re-install .. :-(