Python error interpretation

[Hal Burgiss]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 08:47:20PM -0500, Chris Mohler wrote:
> 
> What do you get for:
> 
> python --version

$ python --version
Python 2.5.2

 
> aptitude show python

Package: python
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2.5.2-0ubuntu1
Priority: important
Section: python
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers
<ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 614k
Depends: python-minimal (= 2.5.2-0ubuntu1), python2.5 (>= 2.5.2)
Suggests: python-doc (>= 2.5.2-0ubuntu1), python-profiler (>=
2.5.2-0ubuntu1), python-tk (>=
          2.5.2-0ubuntu1)
Conflicts: python-base, python-bz2, python-central (< 0.5.5),
python-csv, python-xmlbase, python2.1 (<=
           2.1.2), python2.3 (< 2.3.5-14)
Replaces: python-base, python-xmlbase, python2.3 (<= 2.3.2-6)
Provides: python-email, python-xmlbase
Description: An interactive high-level object-oriented language
(default version)
 Python, the high-level, interactive object oriented language,
includes an extensive class library with
 lots of goodies for network programming, system administration,
sounds and graphics. 
 
 This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian's
default Python version (currently
 v2.5).

> Do you maybe have some third-party repos enabled?

It looks like all regular Ubuntu stuff (I didn't set this server up
originally). The only oddity is the sources.list file has a 6.06
header in it. This server was at one time 6.06 tho.

> 
> Maybe 'aptitude reinstall python'?

Same difference....

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up bzr (1.3.1-1ubuntu0.1) ...
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/py_compilefiles", line 3, in ?
    import os
ImportError: No module named os
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1891, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1885, in main
    rv = action.run(global_options)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1263, in run
    self.options.exclude, byte_compile_default=True)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 880, in install
    rt.byte_compile(linked_files, bc_option, exclude_regex,
ignore_errors)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 175, in byte_compile
    fd.write(fn + '\n')
IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
dpkg: error processing bzr (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 bzr
Reading package lists... Done             
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done      
 

-- 
Hal