Catfish - RuntimeError: Bad magic number in .pyc file

PrimoTurbo · 2008-11-26 05:48:07

I'm using catfish as a search tool, I installed it on a new system with findutils as the backend. When I run it I get "RuntimeError: Bad magic number in .pyc file"

I have no idea how to fix this. It runs fine on another system. I tried to reinstall it and did a full upgrade. I tried it with various backends and I still get this runtimeerror. Any ideas?

Allan · 2008-11-26 06:13:40

Give us more of the error message. Specifically, it should say what pyc file is causing the problem.

PrimoTurbo · 2008-11-26 06:23:02

That's all it actually says (the whole terminal output, nothing more), are there more specific logs I can check on my system?

PrimoTurbo · 2008-11-26 22:12:51

Anyone?

Allan · 2008-11-26 22:35:17

See if you can locate a leftover .pyc file with:

pacman -Qo $(find /usr/lib/python2.{5,6} -name *.pyc) | grep "No package owns"

Provide pacman manages all files on your root partition, it should be fine to delete what this finds.

neotuli · 2008-11-26 23:43:52

Yeah, what Allan said, you should be safe to delete the pyc file if there's a py file with the same name sitting right next to it (which there usually is).

Pavel Jackoff · 2008-11-27 15:27:15

Hi there,
I had the same problem. Just build version 0.3.2 of catfish (you only have to change the version and md5 in the PKGBUILD) and it will work again.

Arch Linux

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Catfish - RuntimeError: Bad magic number in .pyc file

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