Getting AssertionError in bindepend.get_python_library_path

[Shivanshu Dixit]

When trying to do a build getting assertion error,

It sometimes works some times throws this error

207 INFO: Appending 'datas' from .spec
208 INFO: checking Analysis
208 INFO: Building Analysis because Analysis-00.toc is non existent
208 INFO: Initializing module dependency graph...
209 INFO: Caching module graph hooks...
216 INFO: Analyzing base_library.zip ...
618 INFO: Loading module hook 'hook-heapq.py' from '/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/PyInstaller/hooks'...
691 INFO: Loading module hook 'hook-encodings.py' from '/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/PyInstaller/hooks'...
1657 INFO: Loading module hook 'hook-pickle.py' from '/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/PyInstaller/hooks'...
2230 INFO: Caching module dependency graph...
2307 INFO: Running Analysis Analysis-00.toc
2307 INFO: Looking for Python shared library...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/pyinstaller", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(_console_script_run())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/PyInstaller/__main__.py", line 214, in _console_script_run
    run()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/PyInstaller/__main__.py", line 198, in run
    run_build(pyi_config, spec_file, **vars(args))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/PyInstaller/__main__.py", line 69, in run_build
    PyInstaller.building.build_main.main(pyi_config, spec_file, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/PyInstaller/building/build_main.py", line 1071, in main
    build(specfile, distpath, workpath, clean_build)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/PyInstaller/building/build_main.py", line 1011, in build
    exec(code, spec_namespace)
  File "/usr/src/dast_client.spec", line 8, in <module>
    a = Analysis(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/PyInstaller/building/build_main.py", line 470, in __init__
    self.__postinit__()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/PyInstaller/building/datastruct.py", line 184, in __postinit__
    self.assemble()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/PyInstaller/building/build_main.py", line 578, in assemble
    python_lib = bindepend.get_python_library_path()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/PyInstaller/depend/bindepend.py", line 803, in get_python_library_path
    python_libname = findLibrary(name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/PyInstaller/depend/bindepend.py", line 558, in resolve_library_path
    fullpath = _resolve_library_path_unix(name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/PyInstaller/depend/bindepend.py", line 632, in _resolve_library_path_unix
    assert os.path.isfile(lib)
AssertionError

[bwoodsend]

What Linux distribution is this and how did you install Python and PyInstaller?

Whilst it shouldn’t be raising assertion errors, generally whenever something goes wrong in get_python_library_path(), it means that your Python environment doesn’t provide libpython3.x.so so it’s unusable to PyInstaller anyway. If everything had gone smoothly, you’d probably just be looking at this error instead.

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[Shivanshu Dixit]

Using 

NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.04.6 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"

python version used is python3.8, it breaks sometimes,but it also passes sometimes (50% chance of passing).

One change is python3.6 is uninstalled,

Thsi file sis present /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.8.so.1.0

Some times it picks this file

2240 INFO: Caching module dependency graph...
2335 INFO: Running Analysis Analysis-00.toc
2336 INFO: Looking for Python shared library...
2405 INFO: Using Python shared library: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.8.so.1.0

[bwoodsend]

[Shivanshu Dixit]

Python3.8 is installe d using apt 

apt-get install -y libpq-dev python3.8 python3.8-dev python3.8-distutils

Installed pip using (added python as alternative for python3.8)

curl -s https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py && \
python get-pip.py --force-reinstall && \
rm get-pip.py

pyinstaller using pip

RUN pip install pyinstaller==6.3.0