Re: LNST on RHEL5
Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 08:10:45AM CEST, rpazdera(a)redhat.com wrote:
On 06/27/2012 03:16 PM, Jan Tluka wrote:
>For everyone who still runs LNST on RHEL5.
>
>Besides the python-ctypes requirement I've hit another issue:
>
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>27/06 12:18:50| (127.0.0.1) NetTestSlave:0095| ERROR:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/root/lnst/NetTest/NetTestSlave.py", line 91, in run_command
> return NetTestCommand(command).run()
> File "/root/lnst/NetTest/NetTestCommand.py", line 224, in __init__
> self._command_class = get_command_class(command)
> File "/root/lnst/NetTest/NetTestCommand.py", line 209, in
>get_command_class
> return NetTestCommandTest(command)
> File "/root/lnst/NetTest/NetTestCommand.py", line 65, in
>NetTestCommandTest
> fp, pathname, description)
> File "/root/lnst/Tests/TestIperf.py", line 86
> except OSError as e:
> ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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>
>The reason is that RHEL5 comes with python version 2.4 and 'as' keyword
>is not known to python2.4.
Oh, I didn't realize that. I'm using the 'as' keyword as well somewhere.
How are we going to deal with this? Should I change it to the way that's
compatible with 2.4?
Radek
IMO, I would not stick to the old syntax. RHEL5 is quite old and a
workaround exists.
@Jirka, any thoughts on this?
>
>I was able to workaround it with following steps:
>
>1. install python2.6 from epel [1]
>2. run nettestslave with following command line:
># PYTHON_PATH=/usr/lib64/python2.6 /usr/bin/python26 ./nettestslave.py -d
>
>Or another way is to modify TestIperf code to use:
> except OSError, e:
>
>Hth, Jan
>
>[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
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