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Hi Graeme and all,

I tried python32 fix and afterwards Frederic confirmed complete success 
with Ganga as well. So, python32 still pretty much required as it seems. 
Thanks to Peter (Love) for the python32 suggestion.

Cheers,
Santanu



Graeme Stewart wrote:
> Hi Santanu
>
> The LFC module is 32 bit, so it cannot be imported into a 64bit python 
> (which naturally you have, running in x86_64).
>
> For ATLAS production we can find the ATLAS installed version of 
> python, so we don't really need the python32 anymore. I'm not certain 
> this applies to user analysis ganga jobs - though it has been claimed 
> that python32 is not required we have occasionally seen problems here. 
> Certainly it does no harm to have a python32.
>
> Cheers
>
> Graeme
>
> On 15 Apr 2008, at 12:22, Santanu Das wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> It seems to be a problem here with python installation on a x86_64 
>> WN. The error we get here:
>>
>> /opt/lcg/lib/python/_lfc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such 
>> file or directory
>>
>>
>> but the file is actually there but cannot be opened. My collegue made 
>> a tarball from the CERN installation of the python lfc directory 
>> (/opt/lcg/lib/python) to check if the lfc libraries installed here on 
>> 64-bit could are corrupted; but found that both local and tarball 
>> import failed the same way when  running on our 64-bit node. Which 
>> implies the problem probably is deep within the python  installation 
>> itself.
>>
>> Interestingly, Steve L's tests are passing though.
>>
>> The native version of python is 2.3.4 here:
>>
>> [root@farm045 ~]# python -V
>> Python 2.3.4
>>
>>
>> And these are all the python packages I've got installed here:
>>
>> [root@farm045 ~]# rpm -qa | grep ^python
>> python-devel-2.3.4-14.4.el4.1.x86_64
>> python-ldap-2.0.1-2.x86_64
>> python-sqlite-1.1.6-1.x86_64
>> python-2.3.4-14.4.el4_6.1.i386
>> python-elementtree-1.2.6-4.x86_64
>> python-2.3.4-14.4.el4.1.x86_64
>>
>>
>>
>> Can anyone please provide me the complete list of python 2.3.4 rpms 
>> for cross-checking, and in particular which one would be causing the 
>> the type of import error as stated above?
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Santanu