import site fails - Please Help

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi, I'm completely puzzled and I hope someone
can shed some light on it.

After cloning a running system, booting the new machine from a rescue CD,
chroot to the new root partition, I get the following strange error
from python upon startup

python -v

import site failed

.....
st= os.stat(path)
stat() argument 1 must be encoded string without NULL bytes, not str

So, what's broken? How can I get out what 'path' contained at this
moment?

Many thanks for your help,
Helmut.

 

[swapnil]

Hi, I'm completely puzzled and I hope someone
can shed some light on it.

After cloning a running system, booting the new machine from a rescue CD,
chroot to the new root partition, I get the following strange error
from python upon startup

python -v> import site failed

....
st= os.stat(path)
stat() argument 1 must be encoded string without NULL bytes, not str

So, what's broken? How can I get out what 'path' contained at this
moment?

Many thanks for your help,
Helmut.

Perhaps its not able to locate the libraries. Try using
http://docs.python.org/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONPATH and
http://docs.python.org/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONHOME