[Bug 938869] Re: lsb_release crashed with SIGABRT in Py_FatalError()

[Barry Warsaw]

On Oct 02, 2012, at 08:35 PM, Rob Adams wrote:

>The problem here is presumably that there's no correct way to set
>PYTHONHOME in this case.  They need the python2.4 that they ship in the
>installer and to point it to their PYTHONHOME.  But if from that
>environment you ever call any other python program then it will abort
>since PYTHONHOME is set incorrectly.  What presumably needs to happen is
>that python 3 would ignore PYTHONHOME and instread use another variable
>PYTHON3HOME (and related) so that there is a correct way to have both
>versions of python work.

Well, strictly speaking that's not even correct.  They're just getting lucky
that setting PYTHONHOME in their script to get their custom Python 2.4
environment doesn't break the system Python 2.7, let alone Python 3.2.  IOW,
they're already skating on thin ice, but they only broke through in this case.

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Title:
  lsb_release crashed with SIGABRT in Py_FatalError()

Status in “python3.2” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I'm just login, and the message to some aplication crashed pops up.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: lsb-release 4.0-0ubuntu19
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.26-generic 3.2.6
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.92-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Feb 22 13:45:24 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/lsb_release
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.2mu
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/lsb_release -sd
  Signal: 6
  SourcePackage: lsb
  StacktraceTop:
   raise () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
   abort () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
   Py_FatalError ()
   ?? ()
   Py_InitializeEx ()
  Title: lsb_release crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-17 (5 days ago)
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