On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 07:21:29 -0600 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On 2024-01-05 at 21:45:25 +0000, > pete <petegn@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi folks . > > > > > > I am still getting plagued by these Python warnings > > > > warning: could not get file information for > > usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyr???????????????????? > > ate_limiter-3.1.0.dist-info/ > > ??????? warning: could not get file information for > > usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyr???????????????????? > > ate_limiter-3.1.0.dist-info/LICENSE > > ????????? warning: could not get file information for > > usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyr???????????????????? > > ate_limiter-3.1.0.dist-info/METADATA > > ????????? warning: could not get file information for > > usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyr???????????????????? > > ate_limiter-3.1.0.dist-info/RECORD > > ????????? warning: could not get file information for > > usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyr???????????????????? > > ate_limiter-3.1.0.dist-info/WHEEL > > > > > > > > it seems every time there is something Python related i get around 150 > > lines of these warnings any help anyone before i loose it and rebuild > > the system that is a nightmare thought > > > > > > Pete > > > > On 2024-01-06 at 07:06:06 -0600, > Doug Newgard <dnewgard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 12:55:24 +0000 > > pete <petegn@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > the problem is if you manually go into the directorys the files are > > > there and are not zero length > > > > > > i checked that > > > > And yet both pacman and python say they are not there. What does > > `ls -lR /usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gpg/` show? > > I know that pete said that the question marks in the original post are > artifacts, but I'm still hung up on the fact that in that original post, > the filenames appear to be relative rather than absolute, as if some > environment variable is unset, or perhaps mistakenly set to an empty > string instead of being unset. > > I admit that I haven't read every post in excruciating detail, but if > something in pete's system is looking in usr/lib, but all the people > helping are looking in /usr/lib, that might explain some of the > apparently contradictory results. > > Can pete please verify that the warnings name files in /usr/lib/... (an > absolute path) and not usr/lib/... (a relative path)? Or perhaps > capture the output from commands that generate the warnnings in a file > and post/attach that instead of (presubably) copying and pasing from a > terminal program (which is evidently not a lossless copy)? yes they are absolute path Pete