Running "glsa-check -l" fails. I know that this used to work, but I think that I've updated gentoolkit since then... Is this simply a missing dependancy issue? Or should Python be installed with the UCS2 option (which warns of breakage if used)? $ emerge -pv python expat pyxml [ebuild R ] dev-lang/python-2.3.3 +X +berkdb -bootstrap -build -doc +gdbm +ipv6 +ncurses +readline +ssl +tcltk -ucs2 [ebuild R ] dev-libs/expat-1.95.6-r1 [ebuild R ] dev-python/pyxml-0.8.3 $ glsa-check -l WARNING: This tool is completely new and not very tested, so it should not be used on production systems. It's mainly a test tool for the new GLSA release and distribution system, it's functionality will later be merged into emerge and equery. Please read http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/glsa-integration.xml before using this tool AND before reporting a bug. [A] means this GLSA was already applied, [U] means the system is not affected and [N] indicates that the system might be affected. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/glsa-check", line 132, in ? myglsa = Glsa(myid, glsaconfig) File "/usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/glsa.py", line 371, in __init__ self.read() File "/usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/glsa.py", line 389, in read self.parse(urllib.urlopen(myurl)) File "/usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/glsa.py", line 403, in parse self.DOM = xml.dom.minidom.parse(myfile) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/minidom.py", line 1907, in parse from xml.dom import expatbuilder File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 32, in ? from xml.parsers import expat File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/_xmlplus/parsers/expat.py", line 4, in ? from pyexpat import * ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/_xmlplus/parsers/pyexpat.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS2_DecodeUTF8 Any ideas? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Invoke "glsa-check -l" (Also fails for all other options than "glsa-check --help") Actual Results: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS2_DecodeUTF8 Expected Results: Security Advisories should have been listed... Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.25-gentoo-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.25-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Gentoo Base System version Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache fixpackages sandbox userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X X509 Xaw3d aalib acl acpi acpi4linux adns alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid atlas avantgo avi berkdb bonobo caps cdr crypt cscope cups curl dga directfb dvd encode esd ethereal evo fam fastcgi fbcon firebird flac flash foomaticdb freetds gb gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile icc icc-pgo imap imlib informix innodb intel8x0 ipv6 jack jack-tmpfs java javascript joystick jpeg junit kde kerberos krb4 ladcca lcms ldap libg++ libgda libwww mad maildir mbox mcal memlimit mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mpi mysql nas ncurses nls oci8 odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl physfs pic plotutils png pnp postgres ppds prelude python qt quicktime radeon readline samba sasl scanner sdl skey slang slp snmp socks5 speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb video_cards_radeon wmf wxwindows x86 xface xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xv zeo zlib"
Try to remove pyxml and see if that fixes it.
Yep - removed pyxml, and it works as expected! Is pyxml an old Python 2.2 package that's not needed with Python 2.3, or are other things likely to break by not having pyxml installed?
I don't know what's wrong here exactly. In theory pyxml provides additional XML functionality to python, but for glsa.py it either hides bugs in python2.2 or introduces new problems. The recommended platform for glsa.py is just python2.3 without pyxml. @Python people: maybe you have an idea what's going on here.
reemerging pyxml should help.
Odd - I re-emerged pyxml before and I still had the problem. I've just done it again and the problem has gone away. Perhaps some other package I've merged since fixed it? Oh, well. I guess that unless anyone else has seen the problem it can be closed. Strange...
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47528 ***
