Out of the blue, my python installation seems to have broken. When trying to run a python script, I get the following…
[michael@arch ~/Code/CTF/aero/house]$ ./solve.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/michael/Code/CTF/aero/house/./solve.py", line 5, in <module> from pwn import * File "/home/michael/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pwn/__init__.py", line 20, in <module> pwnlib.update.check_automatically() File "/home/michael/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pwnlib/update.py", line 199, in check_automatically log.info("n".join(message)) File "/home/michael/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pwnlib/log.py", line 395, in info self._log(logging.INFO, message, args, kwargs, 'info') File "/home/michael/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pwnlib/log.py", line 292, in _log msg = six.ensure_text(msg) AttributeError: module 'six' has no attribute 'ensure_text'
Trying to reinstall the module using pip also breaks…
[michael@arch ~/Code/CTF/aero/house]$ python3 -m pip install pwntools Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main return _run_code(code, main_globals, None, File "/usr/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code exec(code, run_globals) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/__main__.py", line 26, in <module> sys.exit(_main()) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main.py", line 73, in main command = create_command(cmd_name, isolated=("--isolated" in cmd_args)) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/commands/__init__.py", line 105, in create_command module = importlib.import_module(module_path) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1030, in _gcd_import File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 790, in exec_module File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/commands/install.py", line 14, in <module> from pip._internal.cache import WheelCache File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cache.py", line 15, in <module> from pip._internal.utils.temp_dir import TempDirectory, tempdir_kinds File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/utils/temp_dir.py", line 11, in <module> from pip._vendor.six import ensure_text ImportError: cannot import name 'ensure_text' from 'six' (/home/michael/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/six.py)
I have read that this is caused by running pip as root, but I have not done this. I also haven’t made any recent upgrades or installed any new packages. So far I have tried setting PYTHONPATH
, reinstalling python, and reinstalling pip, and none of these options have worked. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I also tried updating python and pip, which didn’t work.
Requested Information:
>>> import six; print(six.__file__) /home/michael/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/six.py >>> print(six.__version__) 1.10.0
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Answer
I was able to update six by doing a wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/benjaminp/six/master/six.py
in ~/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages
. This solved the problem.