Bug 592623

Summary: Setuptools Site Module Already Imported
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Devan Goodwin <dgoodwin>
Component: python-setuptoolsAssignee: Toshio Ernie Kuratomi <a.badger>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 13CC: a.badger, dgoodwin, dmalcolm, lmacken
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Description Devan Goodwin 2010-05-15 19:14:27 UTC
Description of problem:

Building some packages with setuptools in F13 an error surfaces:

/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/sdist.py:4: UserWarning: Module site was already imported from /usr/lib64/python2.6/site.pyc, but /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages is being added to sys.path
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 51, in <module>
    'Programming Language :: Python'
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 113, in setup
    _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 223, in __init__
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 270, in __init__
    self.finalize_options()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 256, in finalize_options
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 1918, in load
    while parts and parts[-1]=='00000000':
ImportError: <module 'setuptools.dist' from '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/dist.py'> has no 'check_packages' attribute


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

python-2.6.4-25.fc13.x86_64
python-setuptools-0.6.10-3.fc13.noarch

How reproducible:

Depends on the package being built but happens every time on those packages.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. git clone git://github.com/dgoodwin/tito.git
2. python setup.py bdist

  
Actual results:

Stack trace above.




Additional info:

This gentoo thread helped me find a workaround (see last comment):

http://bugs.gentoo.org/303331

Commenting out ./setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/easy-install.pth fixes the issue for me.

Comment 1 Toshio Ernie Kuratomi 2010-05-16 16:52:40 UTC
This is not a bug in Fedora; it's a problem with a locally installed setuptools on your system.

If you do: 
rpm -qf /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg

You'll find out that no Fedora package is providing the problematic module.  Similarly, the easy-install.pth is either being installed or modified by the locally installed setuptools.

Comment 2 Devan Goodwin 2010-05-16 17:34:24 UTC
My mistake I had no idea I had a manually installed setuptools, thank you for the help.