Re: new python2.3 bug surfaced in apt-listchanges
Kevin B. McCarty writes:
> Thought I'd email you this directly since the BTS is pretty broken these
> days.
actually, this is a bug in db4.1, or at least triggered in db4.1. Run
the very same python versions in testing and in unstable, or revert
back libdb4.1 to the version from sarge, and the message goes away. I
do see this on sid, but not sarge.
Any hints welcome ...
Matthias
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 22:22:01 -0500 (EST)
> From: Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU>
> To: submit@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: python2.3: Latest python upgrade breaks apt-listchanges yet again
>
> Package: python2.3
> Version: 2.3.3-4
> Severity: important
>
> The latest update to python2.3 breaks apt-listchanges yet again: (no, this
> isn't the _ascii_lower() bug)
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 67, in ?
> seen = anydbm.open(config.save_seen, 'c')
> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/anydbm.py", line 83, in open
> return mod.open(file, flag, mode)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/dbhash.py", line 16, in open
> return bsddb.hashopen(file, flag, mode)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/bsddb/__init__.py", line 192, in hashopen
> d.open(file, db.DB_HASH, flags, mode)
> bsddb._db.DBError: (38, 'Function not implemented -- process-private: unable to initialize environment lock: Function not implemented')
>
> Presumably the item noted in the changelog for python2.3 version 2.3.3-4
> is the culprit:
>
> * Fix broken _bsddb module. setup.py picked up the wrong library.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: powerpc
> Kernel: Linux arcturus 2.4.20-ben10+fixed-brk #1 Mon Dec 1 17:58:21 EST 2003 ppc
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
>
> Versions of packages python2.3 depends on:
> ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.2-1 A high-quality block-sorting file
> pi libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii libdb4.1 4.1.25-10 Berkeley v4.1 Database Libraries [
> ii libncurses5 5.3.20030719-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
> ii libreadline4 4.3-9 GNU readline and history libraries
> ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7c-5 SSL shared libraries
> ii python 2.3.3-4 An interactive high-level object-o
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-3 compression library - runtime
>
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