[PLUG] ssl/python rh7.3 HELL

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

Good afternoon fellow plugger!!

Does anyone know where to start diagnosing this puzzler?

[mailman@wernicke] ~> python
Python 1.5.2 (#1, Apr  3 2002, 18:16:26)  [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat
Linux 7.2 2 on linux-i386
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import socket
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: /lib/libssl.so.2: undefined symbol: OpenSSLDie

I have reinstalled openssl to the latest official, bug-fixed rh version
for rh7.3. I have similarly reinstalled python, but I don't think that
this is the problem.

This library is really a symlink to:

[mailman@wernicke] ~> ls -al /lib/libssl.so.0.9.6b
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       211067 Aug  1 14:28
/lib/libssl.so.0.9.6b

which is provided by:

[mailman@wernicke] ~> rpm -qf /lib/libssl.so.0.9.6b
openssl-0.9.6b-28

I also tried to compile python from source and link to openssl which is
compiled from source, but this failed, as there was no way to tell python
which ssl to look for (setup.py said /usr/local/ssl, which was where the
new, ssl is), so it looked in /lib/libssl.so.0.9.6b, and it's just as
upset as the other python.

Thanks for the time, those of you who read that mess.

Good day.

Fred Ollinger (follinge@sas.upenn.edu)
CCN sysadmin


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