>> I've noticed a strange thing with python lately: >> >> >> >> Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Aug 21 2009, 12:23:57) >> [GCC 4.4.1 20090818 (Red Hat 4.4.1-6)] on linux2 >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>>> def f(): print x >> ... >>>>> f() >> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'CABRTException' >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in f >> NameError: global name 'x' is not defined >>>>> >> >> >> >> Clearly there is a NameError because x is not defined, but what the >> hell is the "terminate ..... 'CABRTException'" business? >> >> I guess it has to do with abrt but abrt is not running on my system at >> all. Also, if I run python2.7 with the above code I don't get the >> CABRTException stuff. What is really strange is that I have all sorts >> of recent files in /var/cache/abrt/pyhook-* indicating that somehow >> abrt is doing things even though it is not running, for instance >> chkconfig --list | grep abrt shows it off in all run levels. >> >> What's going on? > > No idea, but I'd have a look at sys.modules, and if > >>>> import sys >>>> [name for name in sys.modules if "abrt" in name.lower()] > [] > > gives a non-empty result I'd investigate where the culprit is imported -- > /usr/lib/python2.6/sitecustomize.py would be the obvious candidate.
Indeed! Thanks a lot, /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sitecustomize.py was created by the package abrt-addon-python (at least this is the fedora name) and so it was activated by python itself completely independently from abrt (which was not running). Now I removed all packages called abrt-* and the problem is gone. Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list