Description of problem: The problem occurred very recently: I cannot run backintime anymore. ---8<----- [user@localhost ~]$ backintime-qt4 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/backintime/qt4/app.py", line 30, in <module> import qt4tools File "/usr/share/backintime/qt4/qt4tools.py", line 21, in <module> from PyQt4.QtGui import QFont, QFileDialog, QListView, QAbstractItemView, \ ImportError: No module named 'sip' [bertrand@localhost ~]$ backintime-qt4 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/backintime/qt4/app.py", line 30, in <module> import qt4tools File "/usr/share/backintime/qt4/qt4tools.py", line 21, in <module> from PyQt4.QtGui import QFont, QFileDialog, QListView, QAbstractItemView, \ ImportError: No module named 'sip' ---->8---- But sip is installed! Both python-sip and python3-sip packages are installed. When I try to launch backintime (the backend): ----8<---- [user@localhost ~]$ nice -n 19 ionice -c2 -n7 /usr/bin/backintime --checksum backup-job Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/backintime/common/backintime.py", line 24, in <module> import config File "/usr/share/backintime/common/config.py", line 31, in <module> import tools File "/usr/share/backintime/common/tools.py", line 45, in <module> import dbus ImportError: No module named 'dbus' ---->8---- Of course python-dbus and python3-dbus ARE installed. For information, it is maybe not related, but I have a similar problem with a pip installed program (Retext) with cannot find PyQt5.QtCore (python-qt5 and python3-qt5 are installed). How reproducible: Everytime I try to launch backintime. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): backintime-qt4-1.1.20-1.mga6.noarch, backintime-common-1.1.20-1.mga6.noarch
Suspecting that something gone wrong in the "python stack" I tried: rpm -ivh --replacefiles --replacepkgs python3-sip-4.18.1-1.mga6.x86_64.rpm And then error became different: ----8<----- [user@localhost ~]$ backintime-qt4 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/backintime/qt4/app.py", line 33, in <module> import backintime File "/usr/share/backintime/common/backintime.py", line 24, in <module> import config File "/usr/share/backintime/common/config.py", line 31, in <module> import tools File "/usr/share/backintime/common/tools.py", line 45, in <module> import dbus ImportError: No module named 'dbus' ---->8----- sip is no more missing... Going on with dbus: rpm -ivh --replacefiles --replacepkgs python3-dbus-1.2.4-3.mga6.x86_64.rpm And then the error became ----8<------- [user@localhost ~]$ backintime-qt4 Back In Time Version: 1.1.20 Back In Time comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `backintime --license' for details. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 175, in activate_name_owner return self.get_name_owner(bus_name) File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 361, in get_name_owner 's', (bus_name,), **keywords) File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking message, timeout) dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of name 'net.launchpad.backintime.serviceHelper': no such name During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/backintime/qt4/app.py", line 1509, in <module> cfg = backintime.start_app( 'backintime-qt4' ) File "/usr/share/backintime/common/backintime.py", line 463, in start_app return getConfig(args, False) File "/usr/share/backintime/common/backintime.py", line 584, in getConfig cfg = config.Config(args.config) File "/usr/share/backintime/common/config.py", line 272, in __init__ self.setupUdev = tools.SetupUdev() File "/usr/share/backintime/common/tools.py", line 1213, in __init__ conn = bus.get_object(SetupUdev.CONNECTION, SetupUdev.OBJECT) File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 241, in get_object follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes) File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 248, in __init__ self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name) File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 180, in activate_name_owner self.start_service_by_name(bus_name) File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 278, in start_service_by_name 'su', (bus_name, flags))) File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking message, timeout) dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1 ---->8---- Investigating further, I noticed that other Python app are also failing: this is going critical! Apparently something gone wrong with Python... But how to fix it properly? (I can't manually reinstall all Python related packages with rpm -ivh --replacefiles --replacepkgs)
Backintime and most Python apps are now working... What I did: reinstall with 'rpm -ivh --replacefiles --replacepkgs' the necessary python modules to make yum¹ work (it was broken too). Then throw a 'yum reinstall python*' ! As far as I tested, Python apps such as backintime are now working well. But there is still one question: how did this happen ? Is it possible that pip broke everything? ¹ I decided to use yum because I think there is no reinstall or restore option with urpmi. I hope i did not wrong.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED