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Python runserver error loading MySQLDB module: undefined symbol: mysql_kill

I'm receiving the following when trying to runserver after provisioning a VM using Puppet:

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py", line 17, in <module> raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading MySQLdb module: %s" % e) django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/_mysql.so: undefined symbol: mysql_kill

I found this discussion, but the suggestion there didn't help. I'd really appreciate any assistance! pip freeze reveals that I have MySQL-python==1.2.5 installed. I also have libmysqlclient-dev installed via apt-get. Installing python-mysqldb via apt-get doesn't seem to have any effect on this problem.

Solution

  • Frederic Henri's response is correct. I had a mistake in my Puppet provisioning that resulted in mysql-python not being updated, but also without throwing an error during that step.