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

[Tres Seaver]

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Marco Bizzarri wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting
>>            - http://www.simplistix.co.uk
> 
> 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.

Yup.  In fact, this is why battle-scarred sysadmins always use
fully-qualified paths in scripts meant to be run from cron, as well as
in the crontab itself.


Tres.
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