[Libosinfo] Errors on import

[Loranz Steve]

On Sep 19, 2013, at 4:16 AM, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 04:49:01PM -0500, Loranz Steve wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I previously emailed the list about unsuccessfully using get_install_script() on an instance of Db. I thought I would try a different route and try instantiating an empty InstallScript and using generate, supplying the OS, an InstallConfig, and a Cancellable object.
>> 
>> I'm seeing the following behavior depending on the order of the imports:
>> 
>> ------
>> 
>> Python 2.7.3 (default, Aug  9 2012, 17:23:57)
>> [GCC 4.7.1 20120720 (Red Hat 4.7.1-5)] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>> from gi.repository import Libosinfo as osinfo
>>>>> from gio import Cancellable
>> /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gobject/constants.py:24: Warning: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertion `g_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed
>>  import gobject._gobject
> 
> There are two sets of bindings for GObject - the old ones which were
> manually written and the new ones which are introspection based. You
> can't mix both in the same process or bad stuff happens.
> 
> Your 'import gio' is pulling in the old bindings which clashes with
> the introspection based ones pulled in by libosinfo. Change your
> change to
> 
>  from gi.repository import Libosinfo as osinfo
>  from gi.repository import Gio
> 
> Then you can access  Gio.Cancellable
> 
> Daniel
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That makes sense. Thank you.

-steve