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Bug 1533176

Summary: Recent gdbm update seems to break python
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Barak Korren <bkorren>
Component: gdbmAssignee: Marek Skalický <mskalick>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Last Closed: 2018-01-18 21:30:57 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Barak Korren 2018-01-10 16:17:23 UTC
Description of problem:
- recent gdbm update to 1.14 seems to be incompatible with the current build of python in fedora

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
this applies both to python2 and python3 

How reproducible:

# rpm -q gdbm python3 python2
gdbm-1.14-1.fc27.x86_64
python3-3.6.2-13.fc27.x86_64
python2-2.7.14-4.fc27.x86_64

# python2 -c 'import gdbm'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: /usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload/gdbmmodule.so: undefined symbol: gdbm_errno

# python3 -c 'import dbm.gnu'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/dbm/gnu.py", line 3, in <module>
    from _gdbm import *
ImportError: /usr/lib64/python3.6/lib-dynload/_gdbm.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so: undefined symbol: gdbm_errno

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2018-01-15 13:19:24 UTC
gdbm-1.13-5.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-ec4df5a741

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2018-01-15 18:35:19 UTC
gdbm-1.13-5.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-ec4df5a741

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2018-01-16 13:02:38 UTC
gdbm-1.13-6.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-ec4df5a741

Comment 4 Kamil Dudka 2018-01-16 17:17:35 UTC
Same issue in zsh:

% zmodload zsh/db/gdbm
zsh: failed to load module `zsh/db/gdbm': /usr/lib64/zsh/5.4.2/zsh/db/gdbm.so: undefined symbol: gdbm_errno

I will rebuild zsh to fix this...

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2018-01-17 06:46:34 UTC
gdbm-1.13-6.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-ec4df5a741

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2018-01-18 21:30:57 UTC
gdbm-1.13-6.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.