Apologies, forgot to paste in the full traceback, here it is. FWIW I also have zope 2.9.7 installed from source and working just fine on this same machine (using python 2.4.4 packaged with Etch). Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/lib/zope2.8.8/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/zopectl.py", line 322, in ? main() File "/var/lib/zope2.8.8/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/zopectl.py", line 280, in main options.realize(args) File "/var/lib/zope2.8.8/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/zopectl.py", line 91, in realize ZDOptions.realize(self, *args, **kw) File "/var/lib/zope2.8.8/lib/python/zdaemon/zdoptions.py", line 273, in realize self.load_schema() File "/var/lib/zope2.8.8/lib/python/zdaemon/zdoptions.py", line 321, in load_schema self.schema = ZConfig.loadSchema(self.schemafile) File "/var/lib/zope2.8.8/lib/python/ZConfig/loader.py", line 31, in loadSchema return SchemaLoader().loadURL(url) File "/var/lib/zope2.8.8/lib/python/ZConfig/loader.py", line 65, in loadURL return self.loadResource(r) File "/var/lib/zope2.8.8/lib/python/ZConfig/loader.py", line 159, in loadResource schema = ZConfig.schema.parseResource(resource, self) File "/var/lib/zope2.8.8/lib/python/ZConfig/schema.py", line 27, in parseResource xml.sax.parse(resource.file, parser) File "/var/lib/zope2.8.8/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/__init__.py", line 33, in parse check_python_version() File "xml/sax/expatreader.py", line 107, in parse File "xml/sax/xmlreader.py", line 123, in parse File "xml/sax/expatreader.py", line 207, in feed File "xml/sax/expatreader.py", line 300, in start_element File "/var/lib/zope2.8.8/lib/python/ZConfig/schema.py", line 99, in startElement getattr(self, "start_" + name)(attrs) File "/var/lib/zope2.8.8/lib/python/ZConfig/schema.py", line 475, in start_schema keytype, valuetype, datatype = self.get_sect_typeinfo(attrs) File "/var/lib/zope2.8.8/lib/python/ZConfig/schema.py", line 201, in get_sect_typeinfo datatype = self.get_datatype(attrs, "datatype", "null", base) File "/var/lib/zope2.8.8/lib/python/ZConfig/schema.py", line 194, in get_datatype return self._registry.get(dtname) File "/var/lib/zope2.8.8/lib/python/ZConfig/datatypes.py", line 398, in get t = self.search(name) File "/var/lib/zope2.8.8/lib/python/ZConfig/datatypes.py", line 423, in search package = __import__(n, g, g, component) File "/var/lib/zope2.8.8/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/datatypes.py", line 20, in ? from ZODB.config import ZODBDatabase File "/var/lib/zope2.8.8/lib/python/ZODB/__init__.py", line 21, in ? from persistent import TimeStamp File "/var/lib/zope2.8.8/lib/python/persistent/__init__.py", line 19, in ? from cPersistence import Persistent, GHOST, UPTODATE, CHANGED, STICKY ImportError: /var/lib/zope2.8.8/lib/python/persistent/cPersistence.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS2_AsEncodedString John Schinnerer wrote:
Aloha,
I have just attempted my first zope install using a python built from source and am getting an error traceback ending with:
undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS2_AsEncodedString
...when I try to start zope (full traceback at end of msg).
The story: I need to get a zope 2.8.8 up and running on debian Etch (4.0) and python 2.3.x is not available as debian package on Etch. So...
I got the python 2.3.6 tarball from python.org, followed the build instructions and amazingly enough got it built and installed. I already have python 2.4 so I made sure to put 2.3 in its' own path.
Then I got zope 2.8.8 tarball and built that, using the '--with-python=' option to specify my python 2.3 installation (/usr/local/bin/python2.3 FWIW).
The zope build seemed to complete fine also. However when trying to start zope 2.8.8 I get the undefined symbol error. The most relevant info I could google up is here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/zope/users/208596
I get that there may be some issue with the two build processes and something called UCS4 vs. UCS2 mixed up somehow. The rest, like how that happened and/or how to fix it, is way over my head.
Can anyone clarify the UCS2/UCS4 issue and how to resolve it?
thanks, John S.
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