bp zipImport errors

Chris Spencer gmane.20.evilspam at spamgourmet.com
Sat Sep 3 20:23:18 UTC 2005


Roger Binns wrote:
>> However, I'm now encountering a puzzling problem.  On the fourth or 
>> fifth launch of bitpim (sequential, not simultaneous) I generally 
>> encounter the following error:
>>
>>    zipimport.ZipImportError: not a Zip file: '/usr/lib/bitpim-0.7.32/bp'
>>    Fatal Python error: cannot get zipimporter instance
>>    Aborted
> 
> 
> You can thank your operating system for this.  Every evening it runs a
> task that goes around stripping files.  In this bp is an ELF binary
> with a zip file appended.  The automated strip processes is removing
> the zip file.
> 
> I suggest finding the cron job that does this and stop it.  (No, I don't
> know what it is exactly as I don't run Fedora).
> 
> Roger

This is from the Bitpim mailing list. Does anyone here know what he's 
referring to? Why would Fedora run a task that randomly deletes zip 
files? Is there a way to prevent this?

Regards,
Chris Spencer




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