Bug 526402

Created attachment 363123 [details]
File: backtrace

"pydoc -k" is searching through all modules on your system.

It's failing on "/home/matej/.python-lib/mechanize/_useragent.py", which looks like a locally-installed version of the mechanize package.  What version of mechanize is that?

Yes, that's it. Sorry for the noise.

Well, that was hasty:

bradford:~$ pydoc -k hmac
hmac - HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication) Python module.
Crypto.Hash.HMAC - HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication) Python module.

(process:6115): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_keymap_get_for_display: assertion `GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed

(process:6115): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_root_window: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed

** (process:6115): CRITICAL **: egg_keymap_resolve_virtual_modifiers: assertion `GDK_IS_KEYMAP (keymap)' failed

** (process:6115): CRITICAL **: egg_keymap_resolve_virtual_modifiers: assertion `GDK_IS_KEYMAP (keymap)' failed

** (process:6115): CRITICAL **: egg_keymap_resolve_virtual_modifiers: assertion `GDK_IS_KEYMAP (keymap)' failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pydoc", line 5, in <module>
    pydoc.cli()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/pydoc.py", line 2264, in cli
    apropos(val)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/pydoc.py", line 1962, in apropos
    ModuleScanner().run(callback, key)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/pydoc.py", line 1927, in run
    for importer, modname, ispkg in pkgutil.walk_packages(onerror=onerror):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/pkgutil.py", line 110, in walk_packages
    __import__(name)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/parted/__init__.py", line 28, in <module>
    from _ped import AlignmentException
RuntimeError: pyparted requires root access
bradford:~$ 

Even when I have no local python library, pydoc fails .... Why in the world it needs parted???

Well, it's iterating through all installed packages, importing them.  One of the installed packages is "parted", and parted appears to have a hard requirement on being _imported_ as root.

Looks to me like the parted code should be importable as non-root, but only runnable by root.  Alternatively, perhaps "pydoc -k" could be made to handle this kind of case.

Renaming and reasssiging to "parted".  If it's not feasible to fix there, reassign back to python and I can look at a better onerror handler.

This is not an issue with parted, but with pyparted.

Re-assigning.

David, this is an issue for running pylint on anaconda to (it needs to be done as root because of the root check in pyparted). Since parted itself can be used
as normal user too (on disk images for example), can you please remove the unneeded root check from pyparted ?

(In reply to comment #6)
> This is not an issue with parted, but with pyparted.
> 
> Re-assigning.
> 
> David, this is an issue for running pylint on anaconda to (it needs to be done
> as root because of the root check in pyparted). Since parted itself can be used
> as normal user too (on disk images for example), can you please remove the
> unneeded root check from pyparted ?  

Sure, done and done.  Fixed in pyparted-2.3-1 in rawhide.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
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