Running setup.py install for netifaces: finished with status 'error'

[Kevin Huynh]

The install fails on SLE12 SP1 with master branch. Never had this error on the same system before.

Installed gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel

gcc-4.8-6.189.x86_64
gcc-c++-4.8-6.189.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.12.39-47.1.noarch

Snippet from install log

02:26:37 Running setup.py install for netifaces: finished with status 'error'
02:26:37 Complete output from command /opt/rally-upstream/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-_kIttB/netifaces/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-kiXeRa-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /opt/rally-upstream/include/site/python2.7/netifaces:
02:26:37 running install
02:26:37 running build
02:26:37 running build_ext
02:26:37 checking for getifaddrs...found.
02:26:37 checking for getnameinfo...found.
02:26:37 checking for IPv6 socket IOCTLs...not found.
02:26:37 checking for optional header files...netash/ash.h netatalk/at.h netax25/ax25.h neteconet/ec.h netipx/ipx.h netpacket/packet.h linux/irda.h linux/atm.h linux/llc.h linux/tipc.h linux/dn.h.
02:26:37 checking whether struct sockaddr has a length field...no.
02:26:37 checking which sockaddr_xxx structs are defined...at ax25 in in6 ipx un ash ec ll atmpvc atmsvc dn irda llc.
02:26:37 checking for routing socket support...no.
02:26:37 checking for sysctl(CTL_NET...) support...no.
02:26:37 checking for netlink support...yes.
02:26:37 will use netlink to read routing table
02:26:37 building 'netifaces' extension
02:26:37 gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -fmessage-length=0 -grecord-gcc-switches -fstack-protector -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -g -DNDEBUG -fmessage-length=0 -grecord-gcc-switches -fstack-protector -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -g -DOPENSSL_LOAD_CONF -fPIC -DNETIFACES_VERSION=0.10.5 -DHAVE_GETIFADDRS=1 -DHAVE_GETNAMEINFO=1 -DHAVE_NETASH_ASH_H=1 -DHAVE_NETATALK_AT_H=1 -DHAVE_NETAX25_AX25_H=1 -DHAVE_NETECONET_EC_H=1 -DHAVE_NETIPX_IPX_H=1 -DHAVE_NETPACKET_PACKET_H=1 -DHAVE_LINUX_IRDA_H=1 -DHAVE_LINUX_ATM_H=1 -DHAVE_LINUX_LLC_H=1 -DHAVE_LINUX_TIPC_H=1 -DHAVE_LINUX_DN_H=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_AT=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_AX25=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_IN=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_IN6=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_IPX=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_UN=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_ASH=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_EC=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_LL=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_ATMPVC=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_ATMSVC=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_DN=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_IRDA=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_LLC=1 -DHAVE_PF_NETLINK=1 -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c netifaces.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/netifaces.o
02:26:37 netifaces.c: In function 'gateways':
02:26:37 netifaces.c:1704:22: error: 'RTNL_FAMILY_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)
02:26:37 int def_priorities[RTNL_FAMILY_MAX];
02:26:37 ^
02:26:37 netifaces.c:1704:22: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
02:26:37 netifaces.c:1704:7: warning: unused variable 'def_priorities' [-Wunused-variable]
02:26:37 int def_priorities[RTNL_FAMILY_MAX];
02:26:37 ^
02:26:37 error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
02:26:37
02:26:37 ----------------------------------------
02:26:37 Command "/opt/rally-upstream/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-_kIttB/netifaces/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-kiXeRa-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /opt/rally-upstream/include/site/python2.7/netifaces" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-_kIttB/netifaces/

[Alexander Maretskiy (maretskiy)]

This seems to be related to missed C headers files:

 02:26:37 netifaces.c: In function 'gateways':
 02:26:37 netifaces.c:1704:22: error: 'RTNL_FAMILY_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)

That's probably rtnetlink.h:

http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h#L15

[Kevin Huynh (kevkha)]

It appears to be a problem in netifaces-0.10.5 but not in netifaces-0.10.4.

# pip install netifaces --no-clean

  InsecurePlatformWarning
  Using cached netifaces-0.10.5.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: netifaces
  Running setup.py install for netifaces ... error

# pip install netifaces==0.10.4 --no-clean
Collecting netifaces==0.10.4
  Using cached netifaces-0.10.4.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: netifaces
  Running setup.py install for netifaces ... done
Successfully installed netifaces-0.10.4

I looked in requirements.txt but not seeing netifaces defined here. Any ideas how to specify netifaces version for "Installing collected packages" to workaround this?

[Kevin Huynh (kevkha)]

Further up the log in the collecting section it used the cached as shown.

10:14:30 Collecting netifaces>=0.10.4 (from oslo.utils>=3.16.0->rally==0.5.1.dev140)
10:14:30 Using cached netifaces-0.10.5.tar.gz

[Kevin Huynh (kevkha)]

I cleared the pip cache but still no joy because of netifaces>=0.10.4

# rm -r ~/.cache/pip

11:49:21 Collecting netifaces>=0.10.4 (from oslo.utils>=3.16.0->rally==0.5.1.dev144)
11:49:21 Downloading netifaces-0.10.5.tar.gz

Proposed solution:

1. Fix the missing C headers file in netifaces-0.10.5
2. Supported an older version netifaces==0.10.4

[Kevin Huynh (kevkha)]

I was able to work around this issue by:

# zypper update
# pip install --upgrade pip
# pip install --upgrade python-openstackclient

and netifaces-0.10.5 install succeeded.

Successfully installed Babel-2.3.4 PyYAML-3.12 cliff-2.2.0 jsonpatch-1.14 keystoneauth1-2.12.1 msgpack-python-0.4.8 netifaces-0.10.5 openstacksdk-0.9.5 os-client-config-1.21.1 osc-lib-1.1.0 oslo.config-3.17.0 oslo.i18n-3.9.0 oslo.serialization-2.13.0 oslo.utils-3.16.0 positional-1.1.1 python-cinderclient-1.9.0 python-glanceclient-2.5.0 python-keystoneclient-3.5.0 python-novaclient-6.0.0 python-openstackclient-3.2.0 requests-2.11.1 rfc3986-0.4.1 stevedore-1.17.1

[Andriy Kurilin (andreykurilin)]

It wasn't our direct dependency :( I'm happy that issue is fixed now

[Jorman Franzini (jorman-franzini)]

Hi, I also have the same problem, and python-openstackclient don't resolve the problem.

  Found existing installation: netifaces 0.10.4
    Uninstalling netifaces-0.10.4:
      Successfully uninstalled netifaces-0.10.4
  Running setup.py install for netifaces ... error
    Complete output from command /opt/bin/python2.7 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/Entware-ng/tmp/pip-build-VEkXNJ/netifaces/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /opt/tmp/pip-c267Az-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    running install
    running build
    running build_ext
    checking for getifaddrs...found.
    checking for getnameinfo...found.
    checking for IPv6 socket IOCTLs...not found.
    checking for optional header files...netash/ash.h netatalk/at.h netax25/ax25.h neteconet/ec.h netipx/ipx.h netpacket/packet.h linux/irda.h linux/atm.h linux/llc.h linux/tipc.h linux/dn.h.
    checking whether struct sockaddr has a length field...no.
    checking which sockaddr_xxx structs are defined...at ax25 in in6 ipx un ash ec ll atmpvc atmsvc dn irda llc.
    checking for routing socket support...no.
    checking for sysctl(CTL_NET...) support...no.
    checking for netlink support...yes.
    will use netlink to read routing table
    building 'netifaces' extension
    x86_64-openwrt-linux-gnu-gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-caller-saves -fhonour-copts -Wno-error=unused-but-set-variable -Wno-error=unused-result -DNDEBUG -fno-inline -DNDEBUG -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-caller-saves -fhonour-copts -Wno-error=unused-but-set-variable -Wno-error=unused-result -fPIC -DNETIFACES_VERSION=0.10.5 -DHAVE_GETIFADDRS=1 -DHAVE_GETNAMEINFO=1 -DHAVE_NETASH_ASH_H=1 -DHAVE_NETATALK_AT_H=1 -DHAVE_NETAX25_AX25_H=1 -DHAVE_NETECONET_EC_H=1 -DHAVE_NETIPX_IPX_H=1 -DHAVE_NETPACKET_PACKET_H=1 -DHAVE_LINUX_IRDA_H=1 -DHAVE_LINUX_ATM_H=1 -DHAVE_LINUX_LLC_H=1 -DHAVE_LINUX_TIPC_H=1 -DHAVE_LINUX_DN_H=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_AT=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_AX25=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_IN=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_IN6=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_IPX=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_UN=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_ASH=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_EC=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_LL=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_ATMPVC=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_ATMSVC=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_DN=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_IRDA=1 -DHAVE_SOCKADDR_LLC=1 -DHAVE_PF_NETLINK=1 -I/opt/include/python2.7 -c netifaces.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/netifaces.o
    netifaces.c: In function 'gateways':
    netifaces.c:1704:22: error: 'RTNL_FAMILY_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)
       int def_priorities[RTNL_FAMILY_MAX];
                          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    netifaces.c:1704:22: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
    error: command 'x86_64-openwrt-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

    ----------------------------------------
  Rolling back uninstall of netifaces
Command "/opt/bin/python2.7 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/Entware-ng/tmp/pip-build-VEkXNJ/netifaces/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__fi...