[Mailman-Users] (python?) troubles installing mailman 2.1.1

[Jon Carnes]

The most common problem with Python seems to be from incomplete installs
(folks who install via rpm, but skip some of the python modules by not
installing all the python rpms - including the development ones).

You can look at the python rpms by typing in:
  rpm -qa |grep python

However, that does not look like your problem.  It looks more like
Mailman simply cannot find your python executable:
  which python

Did you install from an RPM?  If so, you may want to install from
source.  In fact, you may wish to use one of the switches on the
./configure step and point Mailman to the python executable.

The specifics for howto do this are in the file INSTALL that is included
with the source.

Good Luck - Jon Carnes

On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 09:40, Nico Alberti wrote:
> Hi everybody. I probably have a python issue, so excuse me if I post here
> 
> I am trying to install mailman 2.1.1 on a fresh stock Mandrake 9.1 (gcc
> 3.2.2, python 2.2.2) but, I cannot make it start.
> 
> mailmanctl start dies with this error message:
> 
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
> Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
>    File "/var/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 72, in ?
>      import getopt
> ImportError: No module named getopt
>    File "/var/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 72, in ?
>      import getopt
> [cut]
> 
> In previous messages I read that a similar error could be caused by a
> bad python installation, but this is the diagnostic output that was
> suggested: I don't see anything wrong (but I don't know python at all, 
> so maybe someone else may notice something odd in the lines below):
> 
> python -v
> # /usr/lib/python2.2/site.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.2/site.py
> import site # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.2/site.pyc
> # /usr/lib/python2.2/os.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.2/os.py
> import os # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.2/os.pyc
> import posix # builtin
> # /usr/lib/python2.2/posixpath.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.2/posixpath.py
> import posixpath # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.2/posixpath.pyc
> # /usr/lib/python2.2/stat.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.2/stat.py
> import stat # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.2/stat.pyc
> # /usr/lib/python2.2/UserDict.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.2/UserDict.py
> import UserDict # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.2/UserDict.pyc
> # /usr/lib/python2.2/copy_reg.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.2/copy_reg.py
> import copy_reg # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.2/copy_reg.pyc
> # /usr/lib/python2.2/types.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.2/types.py
> import types # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.2/types.pyc
> # /usr/lib/python2.2/__future__.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.2/__future__.py
> import __future__ # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.2/__future__.pyc
> # /usr/lib/python2.2/string.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.2/string.py
> import string # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.2/string.pyc
> dlopen("/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/strop.so", 2);
> import strop # dynamically loaded from
> /usr/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/strop.so
> Python 2.2.2 (#2, Feb  5 2003, 10:40:08)
> [GCC 3.2.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.1-5mdk)] on linux-i386
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> dlopen("/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/readline.so", 2);
> import readline # dynamically loaded from
> /usr/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/readline.so
> >>> import site
> >>> site.__file__
> '/usr/lib/python2.2/site.pyc'
> >>> ^Z
> # clear __builtin__._
> # clear sys.path
> # clear sys.argv
> # clear sys.ps1
> # clear sys.ps2
> # clear sys.exitfunc
> # clear sys.exc_type
> # clear sys.exc_value
> # clear sys.exc_traceback
> # clear sys.last_type
> # clear sys.last_value
> # clear sys.last_traceback
> # restore sys.stdin
> # restore sys.stdout
> # restore sys.stderr
> # cleanup __main__
> # cleanup[1] __future__
> # cleanup[1] signal
> # cleanup[1] site
> # cleanup[1] posix
> # cleanup[1] types
> # cleanup[1] exceptions
> # cleanup[1] strop
> # cleanup[1] readline
> # cleanup[1] string
> # cleanup[2] stat
> # cleanup[2] copy_reg
> # cleanup[2] posixpath
> # cleanup[2] UserDict
> # cleanup[2] os
> # cleanup[2] os.path
> # cleanup sys
> # cleanup __builtin__
> # cleanup ints: 4 unfreed ints in 1 out of 5 blocks
> # cleanup floats
> 
> 
> Can anybody give me a hint? On different Mandrake distributions 2.1b ran
> like a charm.
> 
> Thanks in advance, and apologies for the long post
> 
> 
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