[olug] python crashes. Anyone out there running google-chrome on CentOS RHEL that could do a quick test?

[Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T]

Looks to be an issue on Fedora and Ubuntu when you have both statically and
dynamically compiled modules

https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/29090/why-wont-python-load-modules-in-fedora-19/

The article lists two work arounds.

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Paul Orwig <masterpo819 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am using CentOS 7 and havw Chrome installed...
>
> Here is what I get:
> [porwig at HP-Desktop Desktop]$ python
> Python 2.7.5 (default, Jun 24 2015, 00:41:19)
> [GCC 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-9)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> help()
>
> Welcome to Python 2.7!  This is the online help utility.
>
> If this is your first time using Python, you should definitely check out
> the tutorial on the Internet at http://docs.python.org/2.7/tutorial/.
>
> Enter the name of any module, keyword, or topic to get help on writing
> Python programs and using Python modules.  To quit this help utility and
> return to the interpreter, just type "quit".
>
> To get a list of available modules, keywords, or topics, type "modules",
> "keywords", or "topics".  Each module also comes with a one-line summary
> of what it does; to list the modules whose summaries contain a given word
> such as "spam", type "modules spam".
>
> help> modules
>
> Please wait a moment while I gather a list of all available modules...
>
> dm.c: 1693: not running as root returning empty list
> /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gobject/constants.py:24: Warning:
> g_boxed_type_register_static: assertion 'g_type_from_name (name) == 0'
> failed
>   import gobject._gobject
> /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:40: Warning:
> specified class size for type 'PyGtkGenericCellRenderer' is smaller than
> the parent type's 'GtkCellRenderer' class size
>   from gtk import _gtk
> /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:40: Warning:
> g_type_get_qdata: assertion 'node != NULL' failed
>   from gtk import _gtk
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> [porwig at HP-Desktop Desktop]$
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > <VerySimpleTest>
> > $ python
> > >>> help()
> > help> modules
> > </VerySimpleTest>
> >
> > Fails or segfaults on my CentOS/RHEL 7.1 system
> > Fails, but does not segfault on my CentOS6.7 system.
> >
> > A buddy tested on his system and was not able to reproduce, so i started
> > thinking what is different about mine.  Almost every time, CentOS
> problems
> > can be traced back to something installed outside of software
> repositories.
> >
> > Back in March, i ran a script that installs google-chrome, the script
> > installs a different set of C Libraries.  ( I do not recommend google
> > chrome on CentOS as it is very unstable and often slows my machine to a
> > crawl.)
> >
> > Does anyone else have google-chrome installed on a RHEL derivative such
> as
> > CentOS or Scientific Linux and could report back the results of the
> above 3
> > line test?
> >
> > Thank You.
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Jeff Hinrichs
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