Comment 5 for bug 408600

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In , Ben (ben-redhat-bugs) wrote :

Description of problem:
python-inotify does not check for the glibc version correctly. I got the following trace today:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/git-cola", line 59, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cola/main.py", line 138, in main
    ctl = Controller(model, view)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cola/controllers/main.py", line 197, in __init__
    self.start_inotify_thread()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cola/controllers/main.py", line 1085, in start_inotify_thread
    from cola.inotify import GitNotifier
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cola/inotify.py", line 14, in<module>
    import pyinotify
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyinotify.py", line 103, in <module>
    raise UnsupportedLibcVersionError(LIBC_VERSION)
pyinotify.UnsupportedLibcVersionError: Libc 2.10.1 is unsupported, requires at least Libc 2.4

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
% rpm -q glibc python-inotify
glibc-2.10.1-1.x86_64
python-inotify-0.8.1-2.git20090208.fc11.noarch
Additional info: