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

[Thomas Schreiner]

Andrew McNamara wrote:
>>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).

Problem soled. I was starting the deamon in the directory where I 
Downloaded albatross. During the installation of python I found out that 
there was a copy of the sesseion-server-daemon in pythons bin directory. 
When starting this one everything works.

Thanks for your help,
Thomas