[Zope] Weird "undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS{2|4}_AsEncodedString" errors

[Marco Bizzarri]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> Chris Withers wrote:
>> ImportError: /usr/lib/zope2.9/lib/python/persistent/cPersistence.so:
>> undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_AsEncodedString
>
>> ImportError: /opt/Zope-2.9/lib/python/persistent/cPersistence.so:
>> undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS2_AsEncodedString
>
> Having had a bit of a google, I found this post from Andreas:
>
> http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-users/2006-June/003791.html
>
> So it seems that "python2.4" resolves to one python when cron is running
> and another when run from a shell of the same user.
>
> Has anyone seen this behaviour before or know what could cause it?
>
> cheers,
>
> Chris
>
> PS: I've solved this for now by changing python2.4 to
> /usr/local/bin/python2.4 in the control scripts, which seems to have
> done the trick.
>
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Is it possible that you've something in your .bash_profile or .bashrc
which manipulates the PATH environment variable?

The behaviour could be explained because cron could define and execute
your script using /bin/sh as the shell. Even though that one is a sym
or an hard link to /bin/bash, bash could behave like sh and not
reading the .bashrc or .bash_profile scripts before starting.

Hope this help

Regards
Marco


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