Error importing hashlib with python 2.7 but not with 2.6

I’m on Solaris 10 (x86).

Until now, I was using python2.6. Today, I installed python2.7 and I have a weird error occuring when importing hashlib on 2.7, but not on 2.6:

Python 2.6:

<a href="https://getridbug.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="14667b7b6054796d677166627166">[email protected]</a> [PROD] # python2.6 -c "import hashlib"
<a href="https://getridbug.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="cbb9a4a4bf8ba6b2b8aeb9bdaeb9">[email protected]</a> [PROD] #

Python 2.7:

<a href="https://getridbug.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1765787863577a6e647265617265">[email protected]</a> [PROD] # python2.7 -c "import hashlib"
ERROR:root:code for hash md5 was not found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 139, in <module>
    globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 91, in __get_builtin_constructor
    raise ValueError('unsupported hash type ' + name)
ValueError: unsupported hash type md5
ERROR:root:code for hash sha1 was not found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 139, in <module>
    globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 91, in __get_builtin_constructor
    raise ValueError('unsupported hash type ' + name)
ValueError: unsupported hash type sha1
ERROR:root:code for hash sha224 was not found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 139, in <module>
    globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 91, in __get_builtin_constructor
    raise ValueError('unsupported hash type ' + name)
ValueError: unsupported hash type sha224
ERROR:root:code for hash sha256 was not found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 139, in <module>
    globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 91, in __get_builtin_constructor
    raise ValueError('unsupported hash type ' + name)
ValueError: unsupported hash type sha256
ERROR:root:code for hash sha384 was not found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 139, in <module>
    globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 91, in __get_builtin_constructor
    raise ValueError('unsupported hash type ' + name)
ValueError: unsupported hash type sha384
ERROR:root:code for hash sha512 was not found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 139, in <module>
    globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 91, in __get_builtin_constructor
    raise ValueError('unsupported hash type ' + name)
ValueError: unsupported hash type sha512

I don’t understand why I have this error since I’m trying the import ON THE SAME MACHINE.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Answers:

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Method 1

The python2.7 package is dependent to the libssl1_0_0 package (openssl_1.0 runtime librairies).

I installed it, and added the /usr/local/ssl/lib directory in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH environnent variable.

And now it works perfectly! 🙂

Method 2

same error for me. My case was a copied virtenv giving me this error on a new server. The default python was working.

I used

python2.7 -v -c "import hashlib" 2> output.txt

you should see something like this line below in your output.txt:

import hashlib # precompiled from hashlib.pyc
dlopen("/path/to/virtenv/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_hashlib.so", 2);

ldd /path/to/virtenv/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_hashlib.so
...
   libssl.so.0.9.8 => not found
   libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => not found
...

So what I did is simply :

cp /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_hashlib.so /*path-to-virtenv*/manager/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_hashlib.so

Method 3

You can use below command and check which libraries are missing,

ldd /path/to/Python-Library/_hashlibmodule.so

e.g

ldd /usr/local/lib/python2.7/_hashlibmodule.so

If you get output like below, that means you are missing necessary openssl libraries

    linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffd6f6a000)
    libssl.so.6 => not found
    libcrypto.so.6 => not found
    libpython2.7.so.1.0 => /lib64/libpython2.7.so.1.0 (0x00007ffb18b54000)
    libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007ffb18937000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007ffb185a2000)
    libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007ffb1839e000)
    libutil.so.1 => /lib64/libutil.so.1 (0x00007ffb1819b000)
    libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007ffb17f16000)
    /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003e0a000000)

Method 4

I know you’re using Solaris, but I’ve followed these instructions to install the old libssl1.0-dev and it worked on Ubuntu 20.04.

Edit file /etc/apt/sources.list and add this line to the end of it.

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security main

After that run:

sudo apt update && apt-cache policy libssl1.0-dev

Finally,

sudo apt-get install libssl1.0-dev

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