Re: [gentoo-user] import site fails - why

[Fatih Tümen]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 17:44, Helmut Jarausch
<jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
> Meanwhile, I have run python-updater on the master machine and I have
> re-install portage.
> Then I resync'ed the new machine against this master.
>
> Still, env-update fails after chroot
> Here is the output
>
> Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Oct 13 2010, 09:06:24)
> [GCC 4.4.4] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> dlopen("/usr/lib64/python2.6/lib-dynload/readline.so", 2);
> import readline # dynamically loaded from /usr/lib64/python2.6/lib-
> dynload/readline.so
>>>> import site
> # /usr/lib64/python2.6/site.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.6/site.py
> import site # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.6/site.pyc
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site.py", line 526, in <module>
>    main()
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site.py", line 509, in main
>    known_paths = addsitepackages(known_paths)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site.py", line 289, in addsitepackages
>    addsitedir(sitedir, known_paths)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site.py", line 185, in addsitedir
>    addpackage(sitedir, name, known_paths)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site.py", line 159, in addpackage
>    if not dircase in known_paths and os.path.exists(dir):
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/genericpath.py", line 18, in exists
>    st = os.stat(path)
> TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be encoded string without NULL bytes,
> not str
>>>>
>
> This is with portage-2.2.0-alpha4 which works flawlessly on the master
> machine.
>
> I'm puzzled!

It looks like an encoding problem of some path but we wont know which
one unless you try to catch it with strace -e trace=open `which
env-update`. Otherwise I am puzzled as much as you are.
--
   Fatih