Tkinter problem

[Jim Anderson]

I'm running Kubuntu a derivative of Debian Linux. I'm using
Python 2.4 and tcl/tk 8.4. I'm running Tkinter programs and
they were running about a month ago. When I tried them again
yesterday, I got the following message:

> python ~/prog/python/iodef/iodef.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/home/jja/prog/python/iodef/iodef.py", line 10, in ?
> import pkgview
> File "/home/jja/prog/python/iodef/lib/pkgview.py", line 3, in ?
> from Tkinter import *
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 38, in ?
> import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured
> for Tk
> ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so: cannot open

My environment varibles, like PTYHONPATH and TK_LIBRIARY all look
correct and the tcl/tk and python librarys are all still in place.
There is a file '/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so'. I'm
not sure if this is the file not being found, but that is what is
sounds like.

I did a search on this on the web and got some hits, but none of them
provide a solution to my problem.

Can anyone help with this problem?

Jim Anderson

 

[Simon Forman]

I'm running Kubuntu a derivative of Debian Linux. I'm using
Python 2.4 and tcl/tk 8.4. I'm running Tkinter programs and
they were running about a month ago. When I tried them again
yesterday, I got the following message:


My environment varibles, like PTYHONPATH and TK_LIBRIARY all look
correct and the tcl/tk and python librarys are all still in place.
There is a file '/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so'. I'm
not sure if this is the file not being found, but that is what is
sounds like.

I did a search on this on the web and got some hits, but none of them
provide a solution to my problem.

Can anyone help with this problem?

Jim Anderson

Just an idea, but if you're sure that
/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so exists, check it's
permissions and the permissions of /usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/

HTH,
~Simon

 

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Just an idea, but if you're sure that
/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so exists, check it's
permissions and the permissions of /usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/

Also run ldd on it - you could be missing a library

eg

$ ldd /usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libBLT.2.4.so.8.4 => /usr/lib/libBLT.2.4.so.8.4 (0xb7e80000)
libtk8.4.so.0 => /usr/lib/libtk8.4.so.0 (0xb7dab000)
libtcl8.4.so.0 => /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0 (0xb7cfc000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7c31000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7c1e000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7ae6000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7ac0000)
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnsl.so.1 (0xb7aa9000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7aa5000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)

If there are any missing things then you need to re-install those
packages.