Bug#522024: ImportError: No module named ldap

[Per Wawra]

I can not reproduce your problem.
It seems to be a python vs. python-ldap problem on your machine.
On Lenny python defaults to python2.5.
"import ldap" should work flawlessly on python2.5!

"ls -l /usr/bin/python" should result in "/usr/bin/python -> python2.5"
"dpkg -S /usr/bin/python" should result in "python-minimal"
"dpkg -l python-minimal" should result in "2.5.2-3"
'''python -c "import ldap"''' should return nothing

Did you install Packages from other sources than debian.org?

It might be useful to reinstall all related packages from debian.org!

"apt-get --reinstall install python python-minimal python-ldap luma
python2.5 python2.5-minimal"

Please report if your problem still exists!

If yes, please also send the output of "dpkg-query -W -f='${Package}
${Version}\n'|grep python"

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[Ruzsa Balazs]

Hello!

Thanks for looking into this.

Summary:

After following your advice to reinstall the affected packages (apt-get
--reinstall install python python-minimal python-ldap luma) the problem
disappeared.

Details (in chronological order as I tried what you wrote):

rb@prana:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/python
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2009-02-19 11:18 /usr/bin/python -> python2.5
rb@prana:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/python
python-minimal: /usr/bin/python
rb@prana:~$ dpkg -l python-minimal
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============================================-==============================================-============================================================================================================
ii python-minimal 2.5.2-3 A minimal subset of the Python language (default version)
rb@prana:~$ python -c "import ldap"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named ldap
rb@prana:~$

> Did you install Packages from other sources than debian.org?

Yes, but nothing related to Python.

I suspect the problem might be related to my machine having been
upgraded from etch to lenny. Something was probably not correctly
"rewired" around the ldap module.

> It might be useful to reinstall all related packages from debian.org!
>
> "apt-get --reinstall install python python-minimal python-ldap luma
> python2.5 python2.5-minimal"

This fixed it.

Here is the output:

rb@prana:~$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install python python-minimal python-ldap luma
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1034kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 184646 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace python 2.5.2-3 (using .../python_2.5.2-3_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python ...
Preparing to replace python-minimal 2.5.2-3 (using .../python-minimal_2.5.2-3_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python-minimal ...
Preparing to replace python-ldap 2.3.5-1 (using .../python-ldap_2.3.5-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python-ldap ...
Preparing to replace luma 2.3-1.1 (using .../archives/luma_2.3-1.1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement luma ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up python-minimal (2.5.2-3) ...
Setting up python (2.5.2-3) ...
Setting up python-ldap (2.3.5-1) ...
Setting up luma (2.3-1.1) ...
rb@prana:~$ python -c "import ldap"
rb@prana:~$

Have a nice day,

Balazs Ruzsa
Hungary

At Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:13:52 +0100,

[Per Wawra]

Ruzsa Balazs wrote:
> rb@prana:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/python
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2009-02-19 11:18 /usr/bin/python -> python2.5
> rb@prana:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/python
> python-minimal: /usr/bin/python
> rb@prana:~$ dpkg -l python-minimal

> [...]
> ii python-minimal 2.5.2-3 [...]

Everything fine until here...

> rb@prana:~$ python -c "import ldap"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> ImportError: No module named ldap
> rb@prana:~$

...

> I suspect the problem might be related to my machine having been
> upgraded from etch to lenny. Something was probably not correctly
> "rewired" around the ldap module.

It is more likely that files on your system has been manually.
I upgraded several machines from etch to lenny with python-ldap
installed and never had any problems.

I'll close this bug now, because it does not seem to be related to
Debian and no one can reproduce it.

Have a nice day!