Certain users can't start python

[David Demelier]

2011/12/12 Michael Ross <gmx at ross.cx>:
> Hello,
>
> I am ... stuck.
>
> I've been trying to setup mercurials web frontend with apache,
> but apache won't start python.
> Not as cgi-script, not with mod_python.
>
> Investigating, I found this not only to be a problem with apache.
>
> Situation now:
> Users "michael" and "root" can run python.
> All others can't:
>
>        Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
>        Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
>        Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
>        ImportError: No module named site
>
>
> For troubleshooting, I cloned "michael" to an new user "dummy",
> i. e. I created the user, copied all .dotfiles from "michael" over,
> adjusted permissions.
> "dummy" can't start python either.
>

How did dou clone the account ? Does account has a full correct home
path in /etc/passwd ?

> Changing accounts with su does not help:
>        dummy$ su -l michael
>        dummy$ su -m michael
> *both* can run python,
>
>        michael$ su -l dummy
>        michael$ su -m dummy
> *both* can not run python.
>
> Setting PYTHONHOME does not help -- the libraries are found (probably,
> the error messages disappear), the ImportError remains.
>
> It's been a couple of long days and maybe I'm missing something obvious?
> Any input would be greatly appreciated.
>
> 8.2 stable, python 2.7.2.
> As for python, I tried reinstalling. No change.
>
> TIA
>
> Michael
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cheers,

-- 
Demelier David