Activity log for bug #1751351

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2018-02-23 19:39:13 Julio Faracco bug added bug
2018-02-23 19:47:15 Julio Faracco summary python3-libxml2 libxml2 for python3 is failing with undefined symbol: _PyVerify_fd
2018-02-23 19:47:29 Julio Faracco tags libxml2 python3 libxml2 python3 python3-libxml2
2018-02-23 19:48:59 Julio Faracco description System Details: Description: Ubuntu 17.10 Release: 17.10 python3-libxml2: Installed: 2.9.4+dfsg1-4ubuntu1.2 Candidate: 2.9.4+dfsg1-4ubuntu1.2 Version table: *** 2.9.4+dfsg1-4ubuntu1.2 500 500 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates/main amd64 Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-security/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.9.4+dfsg1-4ubuntu1 500 500 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages I'm using a fresh Ubuntu 17.10 and I cannot import libxml2 using Python3. Python 3.6.3 (default, Oct 3 2017, 21:45:48) [GCC 7.2.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import libxml2 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in <module> import libxml2mod ImportError: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/libxml2mod.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so: undefined symbol: _PyVerify_fd >>> quit() Segmentation fault (core dumped) There are some other related issues on Fedora and Debian. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1406920 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=878684 System Details: Description: Ubuntu 17.10 Release: 17.10 python3-libxml2:   Installed: 2.9.4+dfsg1-4ubuntu1.2   Candidate: 2.9.4+dfsg1-4ubuntu1.2   Version table:  *** 2.9.4+dfsg1-4ubuntu1.2 500         500 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates/main amd64 Packages         500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-security/main amd64 Packages         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status      2.9.4+dfsg1-4ubuntu1 500         500 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages I'm using a fresh Ubuntu 17.10 and I cannot import libxml2 using Python3. Python 3.6.3 (default, Oct 3 2017, 21:45:48) [GCC 7.2.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import libxml2 Traceback (most recent call last):   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in <module>     import libxml2mod ImportError: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/libxml2mod.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so: undefined symbol: _PyVerify_fd >>> quit() Segmentation fault (core dumped) There are some other related issues on Fedora and Debian. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1406920 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=878684 The possible solution was upgrade to a stable version as 2.9.7