abrt version: 2.0.1 architecture: i686 cmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/eric4/eric4.py component: eric executable: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/eric4/eric4.py kernel: 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 os_release: Fedora release 15 (Lovelock) package: eric-4.4.13-1.fc15 reason: eric4.py:21:<module>:ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sip.so: file too short time: Mon Sep 3 01:40:15 2012 uid: 500 username: Mauricio backtrace: :eric4.py:21:<module>:ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sip.so: file too short : :Traceback (most recent call last): : File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/eric4/eric4.py", line 21, in <module> : from PyQt4.QtCore import QTextCodec, SIGNAL, SLOT, qWarning, \ :ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sip.so: file too short : :Local variables in innermost frame: :cStringIO: <module 'cStringIO' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/cStringIO.so'> :logging: <module 'logging' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.pyc'> :__builtins__: <module '__builtin__' (built-in)> :__file__: '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/eric4/eric4.py' :traceback: <module 'traceback' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/traceback.pyc'> :__package__: None :sys: <module 'sys' (built-in)> :time: <module 'time' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/timemodule.so'> :__name__: '__main__' :os: <module 'os' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/os.pyc'> :__doc__: '\nEric4 Python IDE\n\nThis is the main Python script that performs the necessary initialization\nof the IDE and starts the Qt event loop.\n'
That was almost certainly a corrupted /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sip.so , something like yum reinstall sip could likely help. In the meantime, f15 is EOL now. Feel free to reopen if it can be reproduced on a current/support fedora release. Thank you.