Inada Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 2:52 AM Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > > > > > At 03:40 last night it suddenly started throwing the following error every > > time it ran:- > > > > Fatal Python error: initfsencoding: Unable to get the locale encoding > > LookupError: unknown encoding: UTF-8 > > > > Current thread 0xb6f8db40 (most recent call first): > > Aborted > > > > Running the program from the command line produced the same error. > > Restarting the Pi system has fixed the problem. > > > > This error means Python can not find its standard libraries. There are > some possibilities. > > * You set the wrong PYTHONHOME > PYTHONHOME is very rarely useful. It shouldn't be used if you can > not solve this kind of problem. > > * Your Python installation is broken. > Some files are deleted or overwritten. You need to *clean* install > Python again. > So how was it that rebooting the system fixed the error? It has been working perfectly OK now for a few days since the above failure and I've changed nothing.
I think it was probably a bit of power supply noise or something that corrupted a memory read or write, or something of that sort anyway. -- Chris Green ยท -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
