Re: zenmap crash in NmapParser.py

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

All,

I believe I have addressed this issue in r32868. If you cannot check out
the latest revision from SVN, you can try adding these lines to the top of
the zenmap/zenmapCore/NmapParser.py file:

# Prevent loading PyXML
import xml
xml.__path__ = [x for x in xml.__path__ if "_xmlplus" not in x]



On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>wrote:

> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>wrote:
>
> > Jiří, Chris, and Etienne,
> >
> > Thank you for your bug reports. This crash is happening because you have
> > PyXML installed. Python 2's standard library provides XML support through
> > the xml library [1], but for legacy reasons if it detects PyXML installed,
> > it will import that instead [2]. The two codebases have diverged, since
> > PyXML has not been actively developed for over 10 years and has been
> > abandoned by its maintainers. Crashes of this sort are common with code
> > that was written for Python 2.4 (as PyXML was).
> >
> > For now, your best option is to uninstall PyXML. I will continue to
> > research and see if there is a solution to prevent Python from importing it
> > if it is present. Your bug reports are appreciated.
> >
> > Happy scanning,
> >
> > Dan
>
> Sorry, forgot the references:
>
> [1] https://docs.python.org/2/library/xml.html
> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RemovePyXML
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