Re: [gentoo-user] python2.4->python2.5->import gtk error

[Jan Schneiders]

After updating python you always have to run the python updater script:

# python-updater

(or did you do that already?)

On Aug 12, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Ow Mun Heng wrote:

> Just upgraded from 2.4 to 2.5 of python and I'm finding that I have
> issues with importing gtk.
>
> I have no idea what is happening and I've tried various methods of
> upgrading/re-compiling/downgrading pygobject & pygtk and python and
> glib
> and pycairo and cairo and a whole host of other packages and still
> this
> error.
>
> Google is not my friend unfortunately. I saw something like this
> from a
> debian bug report
> http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-closed@××××××××××××.org/msg186144.html
>
>
>
> Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Aug  7 2008, 23:56:43)
> [GCC 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.0.1)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import gtk
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py",
> line 38, in <module>
>    import gobject as _gobject
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gobject/
> __init__.py", line 30, in <module>
>    from gobject.constants import *
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gobject/
> constants.py", line 22, in <module>
>    from _gobject import type_from_name
> ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gobject/
> _gobject.so: undefined symbol: PyGILState_Release
>
>
> emerge --info
> Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/server, gcc-4.1.2,
> glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686)
> =================================================================
> System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes)
> Timestamp of tree: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:15:01 +0000
> distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port
> 3632) [disabled]
> ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
> app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
> dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r7
> dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
> dev-util/ccache:     2.3
> sys-apps/baselayout: 1.11.14-r6
> sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
> sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
> sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-
> r1, 1.10.1
> sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
> sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
> sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
> virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
> CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O2 -pipe"
> CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind"
> CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-
> active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /
> etc/terminfo"
> CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O2 -pipe"
> DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
> FEATURES="buildpkg ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch
> sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
> GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.averse.net/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/
> http://gentoo.kems.net ftp://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Gentoo/ http://mirrors1.mirrors.64hosting.com/pub/mirrors/gentoo/
>  http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp"
> MAKEOPTS="-j3"
> PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
> PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
> --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats
> --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/
> packages"
> PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
> PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/webapps-experimental /usr/
> local/portage"
> SYNC="rsync://rsync.jp.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
> USE="apache2 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cjk crypt hardened
> logrotate memlimit mmx ncurses nls nptl ntpl ntplonly pam perl pic
> python readline samba session
> snmp ssl syslog tcpd unicode userlocales utf8 x86 xml xml2 zlib"
> ALSA_CARDS="ali5451
> als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1
> emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0
> intel8x0m
> maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci"
> ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty
> extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul
> mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol"
> APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon
> authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm
> authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user
> autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_
> cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident
> imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic
> negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http
> rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack
> vhost_alias"
> ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux"
> LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001
> mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips
> cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint i128 i740 i810 imstt   mach64 mga
> neomagic nsc nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage
> siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa vga via
> vmware
>         voodoo"
> Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG,
> LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS,
> PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTs
>