[H-GEN] Python doesn't love me anymore

[David de Groot]

Sarah Walters wrote:

> HELP!!! Why would python suddenly stop working without any reason? I'm 
> baffled. Makes no difference whether I am a standard user or root. The 
> timestamp on the types.pyc file hasn't changed, but the only thing I 
> have thought of is someone doing something funny with a trojan given 
> that python runs as root every few minutes to do mailman stuff. It's 
> not world-writable though.
>
> Any ideas?

Have you installed *any* updates recently, including kernel updates, or 
security updates to libraries ? 

I ask because it's possible that a library that python uses may have 
been updated by some other security patch and is now causing python to 
bus error. 

I had a similar problem last week with a php update causing gallery2 to 
segfault. (admittedly, that was easier to track down since I knew I'd 
installed the php update and gallery2 is written in php)

Dave