#975 closed defect (fixed)
[with patch, with positive review] Library incompatibilities when launching external applications
Reported by: | bober | Owned by: | mabshoff |
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Priority: | major | Milestone: | sage-2.10 |
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Description
(See http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/78f8b6afea8ca8c8 for some discussion of this bug.)
When sage launches an external application (for example, eog, or singular) it does so with LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to sage defaults. This is necessary for some applications (e.g. singular), but it breaks other applications on some systems (e.g. eog, when running on bober's laptop).
The following examples all take place on bober's laptop, which is a 32-bit Core Duo recently upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10. (Presumably, the problems were not there under Ubuntu 7.04 so this is a system specific defect.)
Some typical examples are
sage: !eog eog: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol: gzopen64 sage: !gimp gimp: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2: undefined symbol: FT_Library_SetLcdFilter sage: !gvim gvim: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2: undefined symbol: FT_Library_SetLcdFilter
Also, this extends to a problem with python package locations, for example (glchess is a python program, which, on Ubuntu, at least, has most of its files installed under /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/glchess
)
sage: !glchess Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/games/glchess", line 18, in <module> from glchess.glchess import start_game ImportError: No module named glchess.glchess
A basic temporary workaround is to change certain instances of os.system(command)
to
os.system("LD_LIBRARY_PATH='' " + command)
. This may allow plot().show() to work correctly in some cases, for example.
A possible better fix described by mabshoff is
The problem is that application like singular would fail if LD_LIBRARY_PATH was unset. One solution would be to come up with a white list of applications that are "Sage internal" or alternatively check if in case we do '!foo' whether there is a foo in $SAGE_LOCAL/bin and execute with LD_LIBRARY_PATH or alternatively if foo isn't in $SAGE_LOCAL/bin execute with the old LD_LIBRARY_PATH before sage-env changed it [and not with an empty one!]
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Change History (17)
comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by
- Status changed from new to assigned
comment:2 Changed 15 years ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-2.8.9 to sage-2.8.10
comment:3 Changed 15 years ago by
comment:4 Changed 14 years ago by
> > > sage: hg_sage.commit() > cd "/home/wdj/wdj/sagefiles/sage-2.8.13.alpha1/devel/sage" && hg diff | less > cd "/home/wdj/wdj/sagefiles/sage-2.8.13.alpha1/devel/sage" && hg commit > emacs: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2: undefined symbol: > FT_Library_SetLcdFilter > transaction abort! > rollback completed > abort: edit failed: emacs exited with status 127 > This is a library conflict. I know how to fix it, by unsetting some environment variables before calling emacs. This is trac #975: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/975 For now, if you put this in your SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/ it will be a work-around: (1) Make a file SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/emacs (2) Put this in it: #!/bin/sh unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH unset DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/bin/emacs $@ (3) make it executable: chmod +x SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/emacs William
Changed 14 years ago by
comment:5 Changed 14 years ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-2.10 to sage-2.9
The update-environment.patch takes care of the case:
!eog
or other commands using the shell "!" function. However, this does not address other searches for libraries. So, for example, plot(x,0,1).show() still does *not* pop up a window.
The following will pop up a window, though:
sage: import os sage: os.environ['LD_LIBRARY_PATH']=os.environ['SAGE_ORIG_LD_LIBRARY_PATH'] sage: plot(x,1,2).show()
Note that using os.environ like this exposes a memory leak on FreeBSD and possibly Mac OSX (see http://docs.python.org/lib/os-procinfo.html and http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=putenv&sektion=3 for example). Also, probably messes up other things that depend on the modified LD_LIBRARY_PATH
I have no idea how to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH for the show() command, for example.
comment:6 Changed 14 years ago by
- Summary changed from Library incompatibilities when launching external applications to [with partial patch]Library incompatibilities when launching external applications
comment:7 Changed 14 years ago by
- Summary changed from [with partial patch]Library incompatibilities when launching external applications to [with partial patch] Library incompatibilities when launching external applications
Changed 14 years ago by
Modifies the browsers returned to use "native-execute". Use in conjunction with the native-execute.patch
Changed 14 years ago by
Apply to sage-scripts. Creates new "native-execute" command that resets the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable.
comment:8 Changed 14 years ago by
- Priority changed from minor to major
- Summary changed from [with partial patch] Library incompatibilities when launching external applications to [with patch] Library incompatibilities when launching external applications
comment:9 Changed 14 years ago by
All three patches should be applied, with the native-execute patch applied to sage-scripts. The first patch fixes the "!eog" problem from the original ticket. The last two patches allow plot().show() to open an external window.
comment:10 Changed 14 years ago by
- Summary changed from [with patch] Library incompatibilities when launching external applications to [with patch, with positive review] Library incompatibilities when launching external applications
Nice work, looks good to me.
Cheers,
Michael
comment:11 Changed 14 years ago by
Thanks. The last two patches implemented Robert Bradshaw's idea.
comment:12 Changed 14 years ago by
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from assigned to closed
Merged in Sage 2.10.alpha1.
comment:13 Changed 14 years ago by
There is one problem: sage -sdist
only copies all scripts from local/bin
starting with sage-
, so rename the native-execute-script and fix sage/misc/viewer.py
with the attached patch.
The fact that sage -sdist
only copies files with certain prefixes is *not* documented.
Cheers,
Michael
comment from Fernando Perez