On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Ned Deily wrote: > >> In article >> <CACwCsY4qQ1tYStHukSooeftGe=j-ug2lr8sz6jr0qp58ykk...@mail.gmail.com>, >> Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Do you think I should install this update? Perhaps that would restore >>> whatever is missing. >> >> Yes. You should install the update in any case and it's unlikely to make >> the hashlib situation worse :=) > > However, it is likely to make it impossible to diagnose the problem and stop > it from happening again. > > It's not normal behaviour to have functionality just disappear overnight > like this. If Larry is telling the truth that there were no updates > running, *how did the sha-1 library disappear*? > > Larry, I recommend that you try Christian's suggestions before upgrading: > > $ echo -n '' | openssl dgst -sha1 -hex > (stdin)= da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 > > $ openssl version > OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014
I download the update and rebooted to install it, and my machine would not reboot. It was just spinning and spinning. I powered it down and rebooted it and it said "There are updates to install. Do you want install them or just reboot without installing them?" I chose the latter. It rebooted and now hashlib is working again. That made me think the updates were in fact installed, but when I run the software update utility it says the updates have not been installed. It's all very weird. But it's working again. Thanks everyone for the help!! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
