Description of problem: I simply tried to create a python virtualenv using the --system-site-packages option, and got an exception when site.py tries to load the abrt_exception_handler package. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): abrt-addon-python-2.1.1-1.fc18.x86_64 Steps to Reproduce: Run the following command: virtualenv --system-site-packages tst Actual results: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/olivier/tmp/tst/lib64/python2.7/site.py", line 682, in <module> main() File "/home/olivier/tmp/tst/lib64/python2.7/site.py", line 665, in main paths_in_sys = virtual_addsitepackages(paths_in_sys) File "/home/olivier/tmp/tst/lib64/python2.7/site.py", line 623, in virtual_addsitepackages return addsitepackages(known_paths, sys_prefix=sys.real_prefix) File "/home/olivier/tmp/tst/lib64/python2.7/site.py", line 278, in addsitepackages addsitedir(sitedir, known_paths) File "/home/olivier/tmp/tst/lib64/python2.7/site.py", line 203, in addsitedir addpackage(sitedir, name, known_paths) File "/home/olivier/tmp/tst/lib64/python2.7/site.py", line 172, in addpackage exec(line) File "<string>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: No module named abrt_exception_handler ERROR: The executable tst/bin/python is not functioning ERROR: It thinks sys.prefix is u'/home/olivier/tmp' (should be u'/home/olivier/tmp/tst') ERROR: virtualenv is not compatible with this system or executable Expected results: Virtualenv creation Additional info: After checking what happens in site.py, it seems that python tries to load the abrt.pth file. Inside that one, the abrt_exception_handler module is imported. Since the abrt_exception_handler module is installed under /usr/lib64 and abrt.pth is installed under /usr/lib, site.py does not found the required module. Simply moving abrt.pth from /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ to /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/ solves the problem. It's probably a simple packaging problem.
commit e6d1764c75a177a0f87e6bf54f75b0caef05f24d Author: Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc> Date: Tue Feb 19 10:53:06 2013 +0100 move abrt.pth to arch specific location rhbz#912540
abrt-2.1.2-1.fc18,libreport-2.1.2-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-2.1.2-1.fc18,libreport-2.1.2-1.fc18
Package abrt-2.1.2-1.fc18, libreport-2.1.2-1.fc18: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing abrt-2.1.2-1.fc18 libreport-2.1.2-1.fc18' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-4176/abrt-2.1.2-1.fc18,libreport-2.1.2-1.fc18 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
Package abrt-2.1.2-2.fc18, libreport-2.1.2-2.fc18: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing abrt-2.1.2-2.fc18 libreport-2.1.2-2.fc18' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-4176/abrt-2.1.2-2.fc18,libreport-2.1.2-2.fc18 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
abrt-2.1.2-2.fc18, libreport-2.1.2-2.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.