[rdiff-backup-users] ImportError issue with rdiff-backup on Core 5

[Chun Ly]

Hello,

 I have installed rdiff-backup on a RH 9 (rather recently) and had it
 working without any problems. However, I had to wipe my computer due to
 security issues with someone hacking into my system, and I have the OS
 upgraded to Fedora Core 5.

 I was able to install librsync by unpacking the tar file and following
 the instructions. The installation of rdiff-backup worked fine as well
 where I downloaded the tarball files and installed it with Python.

 However, when I tried implementing any command with rdiff-backup, I get
 the following message:
  address@hidden rdiff-backup-1.0.4]# rdiff-backup /root/install.log /chun
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 20, in ?
    import rdiff_backup.Main
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 25, in ?
    import Globals, Time, SetConnections, selection, robust, rpath, \
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py", line 
30, in ?
    import Globals, connection, rpath
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 537, 
in ?
    import Globals, Time, Rdiff, Hardlink, FilenameMapping, C, Security, \
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Rdiff.py", line 22, in ?
    import os, librsync
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/librsync.py", line 28, in 
?
    import _librsync
  ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/_librsync.so:
  cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied

 At first I thought it was the installation, and so I also installed
 rdiff-backup with yum. I didn't know that rdiff-backup could be
 installed with yum initially. Anyway, I still got the same error.

 I'm not that IT savvy, but I can manage. Our office has one over-worked
 person for IT, and so he will help, but I think I will be fixing the
 problem in the end.

 Oh, one thing that I had to do to get rdiff-backup to this state was to
 put a symbolic link in /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ as for whatever
 reason, the rdiff-backup python scripts were installed under python2.3.
 I'm running Python 2.4.2. This resolved issues that called for Main.py,
 etc.

 If anybody knows how to fix this problem, that would be great.

Thanks,
 - Chun Ly

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Chun Ly
UCLA, Graduate Student Researcher
email: address@hidden
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