Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio companion problem

[Eric Blossom]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:57:58PM +0200, mehmet kabasakal wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am trying to run grc from the terminal. But when i type grc i got:
> 
> address@hidden:~$ grc
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/grc", line 48, in <module>
>     from gnuradio.grc.python.Platform import Platform
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gnuradio/grc/python/Platform.py",
> line 22, in <module>
>     from .. base.Platform import Platform as _Platform
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gnuradio/grc/base/Platform.py",
> line 22, in <module>
>     from .. base import ParseXML, odict
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gnuradio/grc/base/ParseXML.py",
> line 20, in <module>
>     from lxml import etree
>   File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 188, in lxml.etree
> (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:124917)
> LookupError: unknown encoding: ASCII
> Error in sys.excepthook:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 38, in
> apport_excepthook
>     from apport.packaging_impl import impl as packaging
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/__init__.py", line 1, in
> <module>
>     from apport.report import Report
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 20, in
> <module>
>     from problem_report import ProblemReport
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 17, in
> <module>
>     from email.Encoders import encode_base64
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/email/__init__.py", line 47, in <module>
>     sys.setrecursionlimit(1500)
> NameError: name 'sys' is not defined
> 
> Original exception was:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/grc", line 48, in <module>
>     from gnuradio.grc.python.Platform import Platform
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gnuradio/grc/python/Platform.py",
> line 22, in <module>
>     from .. base.Platform import Platform as _Platform
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gnuradio/grc/base/Platform.py",
> line 22, in <module>
>     from .. base import ParseXML, odict
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gnuradio/grc/base/ParseXML.py",
> line 20, in <module>
>     from lxml import etree
>   File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 188, in lxml.etree
> (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:124917)
> LookupError: unknown encoding: ASCII
> 
> Do you have any idea about this?
> I use gnuradio 3.2.2 and ubuntu 9.04

I think somebody else reported something like this a week or two ago.
Can you try searching the archives.  The problem might have been 
the wrong version of lxml.  Try searching for gnuradio+lxml+ascii

Eric