florianbaethge's questions

I have a server running on Ubuntu 10.04 on which I wanted to install Mercurial via

% sudo apt-get install mercurial

It seems to have installed successfully and doesn't show me any error messages. But when I try it I get:

% hg
abort: couldn't find mercurial libraries in [/usr/bin /usr/lib/python2.6 /usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2 /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6 /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages]
(check your install and PYTHONPATH)

I've googled for a while now and found some sites with the same problem but I still have no idea on how to fix it since it nowhere really says what I need to look for or what I need to add to my PYTHONPATH...

By the way, right now my PYTHONPATH seems to be empty:

% echo $PYTHONPATH

%

This is what I get if I look into my /usr/lib/ directory for mercurial:

% find /usr/lib/py* -name 'mercurial*'
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial-1.4.3.egg-info
/usr/lib/pyshared/python2.6/mercurial

Can anybody please help me with that? What (and how) should I set my PYTHONPATH to? I already tried reinstalling, installing with "easy_install mercurial" or with "aptitude reinstall mercurial" but nothing helped. I always get this same error.

Would be great if anyone could help... thanks!

ADDITION:

Building from scratch didn't work out well... when I am logged in as root I can use hg, but when I access with my normal user I get:

% hg
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/hg", line 4, in <module>
    import pkg_resources
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2659, in <module>
    parse_requirements(__requires__), Environment()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 546, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: mercurial==1.7.2

I have a STRATO V-PowerServer running with Ubuntu 10.10 for my stuff but lately have problems connection to the server via ssh.

Basically all I have is ssh-access to the server and if necessary I can boot into a recovery-mode where all my stuff is in /repair so that I can do any fixes on the system.

The problem is, that when I try to connect to the server via ssh I get this error:

Using username "florian".
[email protected]'s password:
Server refused to allocate pty
Linux hwn36335 2.6.18-028stab070.5 #1 SMP Fri Sep 17 15:37:23 MSD 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
     Ubuntu 10.10

                 Welcome to Ubuntu!
                                    * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
                                                                              /home/florian/.zlogin:1: command not found: display_info

So the shell doesn't open and I can't enter any commands. I've already tried to google for "Server refused to allocate pty" but couldn't find anything that helped, though the problem has happened to other people before. Additionally, I sometimes even get a different error: "pty allocation request failed on channel 0" instead of the other error. For this problem all I could find was this:

http://blog.dinotools.de/2010/10/03/fehler-pty-allocation-request-failed-on-channel-0

But unfortunately it didn't help...

Does anybody have an idea why this error is caused and what I could try to fix it?

Would be great if you could give me tips. I know some basic things and know how to work with my server but if it goes this deep into problem-solving I am at my limits... ;-) Thanks!

Addition 1:

/var/log/auth.log

Jan 24 16:20:01 h1696522 CRON[3417]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_smbpass.so): /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Jan 24 16:20:01 h1696522 CRON[3417]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so
Jan 24 16:20:01 h1696522 CRON[3417]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user www-data by (uid=0)
Jan 24 16:20:03 h1696522 CRON[3417]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user www-data

/var/log/daemon.log

Jan 24 16:00:02 h1696522 update.pl[14292]: /var/drweb/bases/dwr50003.vdb - dwr50003.vdb with such CRC32 already exists, downloading has been skipped
Jan 24 16:00:02 h1696522 update.pl[14292]: /var/drweb/bases/dwr50004.vdb - dwr50004.vdb with such CRC32 already exists, downloading has been skipped
Jan 24 16:00:02 h1696522 update.pl[14292]: /var/drweb/bases/dwr50005.vdb - dwr50005.vdb with such CRC32 already exists, downloading has been skipped
Jan 24 16:00:02 h1696522 update.pl[14292]: /var/drweb/bases/dwr50006.vdb - dwr50006.vdb with such CRC32 already exists, downloading has been skipped
Jan 24 16:00:02 h1696522 update.pl[14292]: /var/drweb/bases/dwr50007.vdb - dwr50007.vdb with such CRC32 already exists, downloading has been skipped
Jan 24 16:00:02 h1696522 update.pl[14292]: /var/drweb/bases/dwr50008.vdb - dwr50008.vdb with such CRC32 already exists, downloading has been skipped
Jan 24 16:00:02 h1696522 update.pl[14292]: /var/drweb/bases/dwr50009.vdb - dwr50009.vdb with such CRC32 already exists, downloading has been skipped
Jan 24 16:00:02 h1696522 update.pl[14292]: /var/drweb/bases/dwrtoday.vdb - dwrtoday.vdb with such CRC32 already exists, downloading has been skipped
Jan 24 16:00:02 h1696522 update.pl[14292]: /var/drweb/updates/timestamp -    timestamp with such CRC32 already exists, downloading has been skipped
Jan 24 16:00:02 h1696522 update.pl[14292]: /var/drweb/bases/update.drl -   update.drl with such CRC32 already exists, downloading has been skipped
Jan 24 16:00:02 h1696522 update.pl[14292]: deleting old files ...
Jan 24 16:00:02 h1696522 update.pl[14292]: moving downloaded files from temporary to working directory ...
Jan 24 16:00:02 h1696522 update.pl[14292]: sending notifications ...
Jan 24 16:00:02 h1696522 update.pl[14292]: summary => updated: 0, removed: 0 files and 0 messages
Jan 24 16:00:02 h1696522 update.pl[14292]: Finish Success:   2011-01-24 16:00:02
Jan 24 16:00:02 h1696522 update.pl[14292]: Socket path is /var/drweb/run/updateSock