[albatross-users] Problem running al-session-daemon

[Andrew McNamara]

>ImportError: 
>/usr/local/FreeGee-v1.0/Core/Python-2.2.2/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/cPickle.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS2_AsUTF8String
>
>objdump -x tells me that there is a PyUnicodeUCS2_AsUTF8String in the 
>correct cPickle.so but there are more than one python versions installed 
>and not all of them have PyUnicodeUCS2_AsUTF8String in cPickle
>
>I am using RedHat 9 and tried albatross 1.10 and 1.11pre2
>I am very new to Python and Albatross and new to Linux, so if missed 
>something obvious please forgive me.

This looks like a problem with your python installation (rather than
with albatross). If you're using a RH package, maybe you're missing an
optional extra (maybe RH have broken the unicode support out into an
add-on package)?

Generally I like to build my own python anyway - it should be quite
painless on RH - download the python-2.3.2 tar file, unpack it, run
configure, then "make install" as root. The new python interpreter will
be installed under /usr/local/bin (and /usr/local/lib/python2.3).

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Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft
http://www.object-craft.com.au/