landscape-sysinfo crashed with ValueError in <module>()

[FriedChicken]

Binary package hint: landscape-client

Problem appeared some time after logging in.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: /usr/bin/lsb_release:81: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated import sets Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/landscape-sysinfo
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: landscape-common 1.0.26.1-0ubuntu0.9.04
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/landscape-sysinfo
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/sh
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/landscape-sysinfo']
SourcePackage: landscape-client
Title: landscape-sysinfo crashed with ValueError in <module>()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-8-generic i686
UserGroups:

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Can you please run "landscape-sysinfo" in the command line, as yourself? I believe this issue was caused by the recent upgrade to python-2.6.1, which temporarily broke a number of packages.

[FriedChicken (domlyons)]

$ landscape-sysinfo
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/internet/_sslverify.py:5: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
  import itertools, md5
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/python/filepath.py:12: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
  import sha
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/landscape-sysinfo", line 12, in <module>
    run(sys.argv[1:], reactor)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/landscape/sysinfo/deployment.py", line 86, in run
    setup_logging()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/landscape/sysinfo/deployment.py", line 77, in setup_logging
    maxBytes=500 * 1024, backupCount=1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/handlers.py", line 107, in __init__
    BaseRotatingHandler.__init__(self, filename, mode, encoding, delay)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/handlers.py", line 59, in __init__
    logging.FileHandler.__init__(self, filename, mode, encoding, delay)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 791, in __init__
    StreamHandler.__init__(self, self._open())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 810, in _open
    stream = open(self.baseFilename, self.mode)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/dominic/.landscape/sysinfo.log'

$ sudo chown dominic:dominic /home/dominic/.landscape/sysinfo.log
[sudo] password for dominic:
                     ...

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Interesting. Do you have any idea what the ownership was before you fixed it? I'm curious if it would be root or something like uid 1000 or thereabouts.

[FriedChicken (domlyons)]

No, sorry. I didn't look after this before changing the ownership. I thought it would be root...
I don't even know which program started landscape-sysinfo when it crashed the first time.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

It's run via cron every 10min by default.
Hmm, ok, I'm out of ideas, I'm going to blame this on the python 2.6.x upgrade that messed up with a lot of packages and was bound to introduce spurious errors while the upgrade was going on and packages were being rebuilt.