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Title: Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding on Debian/Python 3.6.4 source build
Type: compile error Stage: resolved
Components: Installation Versions: Python 3.6
process
Status: closed Resolution: works for me
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: Nosy List: ajung, ned.deily
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2018-03-26 08:52 by ajung, last changed 2022-04-11 14:58 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg314442 - (view) Author: Andreas Jung (ajung) Date: 2018-03-26 08:52
Unable to build Python 3.6.4 from sources on a fresh Debian system:

@plone /tmp/Python-3.6.4 $ cat /etc/os-release 
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="9"
VERSION="9 (stretch)"
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

gcc -pthread -c -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes    -std=c99 -Wextra -Wno-unused-result -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-missing-field-initializers   -I. -I./Include    -DPy_BUILD_CORE \
      -DGITVERSION="\"`LC_ALL=C `\"" \
      -DGITTAG="\"`LC_ALL=C `\"" \
      -DGITBRANCH="\"`LC_ALL=C `\"" \
      -o Modules/getbuildinfo.o ./Modules/getbuildinfo.c
rm -f libpython3.6m.a
ar rc libpython3.6m.a Modules/getbuildinfo.o
ar rc libpython3.6m.a Parser/acceler.o Parser/grammar1.o Parser/listnode.o Parser/node.o Parser/parser.o Parser/bitset.o Parser/metagrammar.o Parser/firstsets.o Parser/grammar.o Parser/pgen.o Parser/myreadline.o Parser/parsetok.o Parser/tokenizer.o
ar rc libpython3.6m.a Objects/abstract.o Objects/accu.o Objects/boolobject.o Objects/bytes_methods.o Objects/bytearrayobject.o Objects/bytesobject.o Objects/cellobject.o Objects/classobject.o Objects/codeobject.o Objects/complexobject.o Objects/descrobject.o Objects/enumobject.o Objects/exceptions.o Objects/genobject.o Objects/fileobject.o Objects/floatobject.o Objects/frameobject.o Objects/funcobject.o Objects/iterobject.o Objects/listobject.o Objects/longobject.o Objects/dictobject.o Objects/odictobject.o Objects/memoryobject.o Objects/methodobject.o Objects/moduleobject.o Objects/namespaceobject.o Objects/object.o Objects/obmalloc.o Objects/capsule.o Objects/rangeobject.o Objects/setobject.o Objects/sliceobject.o Objects/structseq.o Objects/tupleobject.o Objects/typeobject.o Objects/unicodeobject.o Objects/unicodectype.o Objects/weakrefobject.o
ar rc libpython3.6m.a Python/_warnings.o Python/Python-ast.o Python/asdl.o Python/ast.o Python/bltinmodule.o Python/ceval.o Python/compile.o Python/codecs.o Python/dynamic_annotations.o Python/errors.o Python/frozenmain.o Python/future.o Python/getargs.o Python/getcompiler.o Python/getcopyright.o Python/getplatform.o Python/getversion.o Python/graminit.o Python/import.o Python/importdl.o Python/marshal.o Python/modsupport.o Python/mystrtoul.o Python/mysnprintf.o Python/peephole.o Python/pyarena.o Python/pyctype.o Python/pyfpe.o Python/pyhash.o Python/pylifecycle.o Python/pymath.o Python/pystate.o Python/pythonrun.o Python/pytime.o Python/random.o Python/structmember.o Python/symtable.o Python/sysmodule.o Python/traceback.o Python/getopt.o Python/pystrcmp.o Python/pystrtod.o Python/pystrhex.o Python/dtoa.o Python/formatter_unicode.o Python/fileutils.o Python/dynload_shlib.o   Python/thread.o  Python/frozen.o
ar rc libpython3.6m.a Modules/config.o Modules/getpath.o Modules/main.o Modules/gcmodule.o
ar rc libpython3.6m.a Modules/_threadmodule.o  Modules/posixmodule.o  Modules/errnomodule.o  Modules/pwdmodule.o  Modules/_sre.o  Modules/_codecsmodule.o  Modules/_weakref.o  Modules/_functoolsmodule.o  Modules/_operator.o  Modules/_collectionsmodule.o  Modules/itertoolsmodule.o  Modules/atexitmodule.o  Modules/signalmodule.o  Modules/_stat.o  Modules/timemodule.o  Modules/_localemodule.o  Modules/_iomodule.o Modules/iobase.o Modules/fileio.o Modules/bytesio.o Modules/bufferedio.o Modules/textio.o Modules/stringio.o  Modules/zipimport.o  Modules/faulthandler.o  Modules/_tracemalloc.o Modules/hashtable.o  Modules/symtablemodule.o  Modules/xxsubtype.o
ranlib libpython3.6m.a
gcc -pthread   -Xlinker -export-dynamic -o python Programs/python.o libpython3.6m.a -lpthread -ldl  -lutil   -lm  
gcc -pthread   -Xlinker -export-dynamic -o Programs/_testembed Programs/_testembed.o libpython3.6m.a -lpthread -ldl  -lutil   -lm  
./python -E -S -m sysconfig --generate-posix-vars ;\
if test $? -ne 0 ; then \
        echo "generate-posix-vars failed" ; \
        rm -f ./pybuilddir.txt ; \
        exit 1 ; \
fi
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'

Current thread 0x00007f1757349440 (most recent call first):
Aborted
generate-posix-vars failed
Makefile:575: recipe for target 'pybuilddir.txt' failed
make: *** [pybuilddir.txt] Error 1
msg314563 - (view) Author: Ned Deily (ned.deily) * (Python committer) Date: 2018-03-28 05:56
Since python3.6 is regularly built with various Debian releases, this seems unlikely to be a problem in Python itself.  Suggest you verify that no venv or virtualenv is in use or that PYTHON* environment variables are set or that no modifications provided by Debian are the cause.  If you can reproduce with a stock Python 3.6.4 (3.6.5 shortly) tarball from python.org, please feel free to reopen and show the exact steps used to build, i.e. tar, configure, and make commands.
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:58:59adminsetgithub: 77323
2018-03-28 05:56:16ned.deilysetstatus: open -> closed

nosy: + ned.deily
messages: + msg314563

resolution: works for me
stage: resolved
2018-03-26 08:54:03ajungsetcomponents: + Installation
2018-03-26 08:53:47ajungsettitle: Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding -> Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding on Debian/Python 3.6.4 source build
2018-03-26 08:52:29ajungcreate