Description of problem: Upgrade to rawhide-20050923 . Try to run python: $ python Python 2.4.1 (#1, Sep 22 2005, 18:40:22) [GCC 4.0.1 20050919 (Red Hat 4.0.1-14)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. Fatal Python error: Invalid argument Aborted (core dumped) These means that compile commands such as this also fail : $ echo 'from compileall import compile_dir\ncompile_dir(".",1)' | /usr/bin/python Fatal Python error: Invalid argument Aborted (core dumped) So no python package can be built in the FC5 devel beehive dist at the moment. Core dump files available on request. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): python-2.4.1-8 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: $ python Actual results: Python 2.4.1 (#1, Sep 22 2005, 18:40:22) [GCC 4.0.1 20050919 (Red Hat 4.0.1-14)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. Fatal Python error: Invalid argument Aborted (core dumped) Expected results: Python 2.4.1 (#1, Sep 22 2005, 18:40:22) [GCC 4.0.1 20050919 (Red Hat 4.0.1-14)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> Additional info: Core dump files available on request.
Fixed in -9 or newer.
I lied.
Problem exists in -10 anyway (as "segmentation fault" here) - I guess you can reproduce it easily ;-)
Should actually be fixed in -11. What a fun week. (Also note that the compile command above is better written with python -c)