[kde-freebsd] [Call for Help] kpythonpluginfactory (Printer Configuration)

[Thomas Abthorpe]

Kris Moore had the same issue, and a fix or work around iirc, scan the
ML archives to see if it was posted there.

On 30/10/2009, David Naylor <naylor.b.david at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It appears that kpythonpluginfactory does not work when the python script
> calls a lib-dynload object (such as 'import time').  A typical message is:
>
> ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/time.so: Undefined symbol
> "PyExc_IOError"
>
> This stops system-settings-printer-kde from working (and, I think plasma-
> python scripting).  I know this worked in KDE 4.2.0.  A tentative
> speculation
> to the cause leads me to conclude something happened to FreeBSD (I still
> needs
> to do an upgrade to RC2)*.
>
> I did, however, find a work around: get kpythonpluginfactory to link
> statically to python.  This obviously leads to a bigger file.
>
> Does anyone have KDE <4.2.2 running, if so please install
> print/system-config-
> printer-kde and see if you can load the "Printer Configuration" in
> systemsettings.  Please report if the config module loads and what version
> of
> KDE and FreeBSD you are running.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
> *I'm also having problems with cups-smb and this may be related
>

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