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Gentoo XBMC plugin issue - cyrus_mc - 2009-04-06 20:27
No matter what plugin I try to run (SVN Repo Installer, CBS, Youtube, etc), it gives an error.
The error always has to do with a missing module (ie: os, urllib2, etc).
This modules are present as part of my system python module path. From what I have been told, XBMC uses its own pre-packaged version of Python and that it doesn't use the system module path. That being said, how do I resolve these module issues.
Python PATH problem? - jimbo333 - 2009-04-20 06:27
I am also getting this problem.
I am running Gentoo/AMD64.
I have tried debugging the issue some, it appears that the file python24.zlib is not in the Python PATH, so I made a sym-link from python24.zlib -> python24.zip, which is in the Python PATH. This gave me an error about zlib and it can't decompress the file. I then unzipped the python24.zlib file into a path that was in the Python PATH, but I now got an error about not being able to import "struct" module. I noticed some changes in the SVN log related to the zlib->zip rename, perhaps someone else can comment on what might be going wrong here?
- tslayer - 2009-04-20 06:33
Debug log.
- cyrus_mc - 2009-04-21 07:20
I was able to get around this (sort of). What I found is that the python24.zip file was missing from /usr/share/xbmc/system/python. I had someone on IRC DCC me their file and everything was working great.
I recently updated my XBMC today with the latest in SVN and now I am getting this error:
21:50:36 T:2977954704 M:1733472256 ERROR: Unable to load /home/cyrus/.xbmc/temp/time.so, reason: /home/cyrus/.xbmc/temp/time.so: invalid ELF header
21:50:36 T:2977954704 M:1733472256 ERROR: xbp_dlopen failed to load /usr/share/xbmc/system/python/python24.zip/time.so
21:50:36 T:2977954704 M:1733472256 NOTICE: Traceback (most recent call last):
21:50:36 T:2977954704 M:1733345280 NOTICE: File "<string>", line 1, in ?
21:50:36 T:2977954704 M:1733345280 NOTICE: File "/usr/share/xbmc/system/python/python24.zip/threading.py", line 11, in ?
21:50:36 T:2977954704 M:1733345280 NOTICE:
21:50:36 T:2977954704 M:1733345280 NOTICE: from time import time as _time, sleep as _sleep
21:50:36 T:2977954704 M:1733345280 NOTICE: ImportError
21:50:36 T:2977954704 M:1733345280 NOTICE: :
21:50:36 T:2977954704 M:1733345280 NOTICE: unknown dlopen() error
21:50:36 T:2977954704 M:1733345280 NOTICE:
I checked the python24.zip file and it contains a time.so file. Maybe I need a more recent version of that zip file? I think the Gentoo ebuild is broken since it doesn't appear to supply it.
- Nuka1195 - 2009-04-21 15:05
Quote:Any files may be present in the zip archive, but only files
*.py and *.py[co] are available for import. Zip import of
dynamic modules (*.pyd, *.so) is disallowed.
.
- cyrus_mc - 2009-04-21 17:49
Nuka1195 Wrote:.
Not sure what you mean. The plugin I am trying to run is CBS, ESPN, etc. These are standard plugins that worked before. Plus, it seems to extract the time.so from the zip file as it appears in my .xbmc/temp directory.
eBuild Process - jimbo333 - 2009-04-21 17:50
Looking through the eBuild process, I don't see where they mess with the Python scripts at all (except to disable termcap libs), is there something that has changed in the build process recently that would require a special build-step? I can't find anything on the Wiki or in the documentation.
- cyrus_mc - 2009-04-21 18:22
Here is what I have found (this happens with all the standard plugins, CBS, Apple Trailers, ESPN, etc - not some homebrew plugin I am working on).
Lets take the example for the debug I posted above. It complains that time.so has an invalid ELF header. What I have found is that in the .xbmc/temp directory, the libraries, as needed are extracted. So, for instance, the CBS plugin requires time.so and that file appears in .xbmc/temp. Now, if I run the file command to identify the type of file time.so is, it just returns data. If I manually extract the time.so file from python24.zip myself and run the file command against it, it returns
time.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, not stripped
So somethine is happening while trying to extract that file from the archive. This happens with any and all libraries (*.so) required by plugins.
I know someone above stated that XBMC does not support .so files, but I find that hard to believe since all the standard video plugins use them.
- althekiller - 2009-04-21 18:32
jimbo333, please repost your debug log properly (ie. use a pastesite).
Debug Logs - jimbo333 - 2009-04-21 20:26
Sorry for the improper post before, here is a link to the logs:
Log running script as build from portage: http://pastesite.com/6571
Symlink from python24.zlib to python24.zip: http://pastesite.com/6572
Manually extract python24.zlib: http://pastesite.com/6573