Bug 2366474

Summary: python-pamela fails to build with Python 3.14: pamela.PAMError: [PAM Error 26] Critical error - immediate abort
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Karolina Surma <ksurma>
Component: python-pamelaAssignee: Orion Poplawski <orion>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Karolina Surma 2025-05-15 10:56:05 UTC
python-pamela fails to build with Python 3.14.0b1.

_______________________________ test_environment _______________________________

    def test_environment():
>       handle = pamela.pam_start(getpass.getuser(), 'login')

test_pamela.py:45: 
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service = b'mockbuild', username = b'login'
conv_func = <CFunctionType object at 0x7f28b5480b90>, encoding = 'utf8'

    def pam_start(service, username, conv_func=default_conv, encoding='utf8'):
        service = _cast_bytes(service, encoding)
        username = _cast_bytes(username, encoding)
    
        handle = PamHandle()
        conv = pointer(PamConv(conv_func, 0))
        retval = PAM_START(service, username, conv, pointer(handle))
    
        if retval != 0:
            PAM_END(handle, retval)
>           raise PAMError(errno=retval)
E           pamela.PAMError: [PAM Error 26] Critical error - immediate abort

https://docs.python.org/3.14/whatsnew/3.14.html

For the build logs, see:
https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/@python/python3.14-b1/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/09024406-python-pamela/

For all our attempts to build python-pamela with Python 3.14, see:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/python/python3.14-b1/package/python-pamela/

Testing and mass rebuild of packages is happening in copr.
You can follow these instructions to test locally in mock if your package builds with Python 3.14:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/python/python3.14-b1/

Let us know here if you have any questions.

Python 3.14 is planned to be included in Fedora 43.
To make that update smoother, we're building Fedora packages with all pre-releases of Python 3.14.
A build failure prevents us from testing all dependent packages (transitive [Build]Requires),
so if this package is required a lot, it's important for us to get it fixed soon.

We'd appreciate help from the people who know this package best,
but if you don't want to work on this now, let us know so we can try to work around it on our side.

Comment 1 Karolina Surma 2025-06-11 16:01:32 UTC
*** Bug 2372023 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***