Michael, I've run into the same problem as Joel on basically an identical setup - CentOS 5.2, openldap 2.3.27-8.el5_2.4, python 2.4.3-21.el5, python-ldap 2.2.0-2.1. This of course being on a 64 bit release of CentOS.
I did as you suggested and updated openldap to 2.4.12-1, and python-ldap to 2.3.5-1, but I still received the exact same error. Because you mentioned that you had never tested python-ldap on a 64 bit machine, I duplicated my setup in a VirtualBox VM only using a i686 release of CentOS rather than x64. I ran my python program using the old versions of software ( openldap 2.3.27-8.el5_2.4, python 2.4.3-21.el5, python-ldap 2.2.0-2) and it ran without any problems whatsoever. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Let me know if you need any other info. Dominic ----------------------------- Joel Heenan wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Comments inline: > >> Michael Ströder wrote: >> Joel Heenan wrote: >> >>> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/ldap/controls.py", line >> 78, >>> in encodeControlValue >>> >>> return _ldap.encode_page_control(size,cookie) >>> >>> ldap.ENCODING_ERROR >> It seems you're running on a 64-bit platform. I did never test >> python-ldap on such a system. Which version of python-ldap is it? Did >> you compile it yourself? Which versions of OpenLDAP libs are used? > > I am using 64-bit RPM's compiled by RedHat for RHEL5.2 . The 32-bit > variants are installed I'll see if I can work out how to force it to > use them. > > Here are the versions involved, but be aware RedHat versions include > backporting so it can be difficult to say exactly what is included: > > openldap-2.3.27-8.el5_1.3 > openldap-devel-2.3.27-8.el5_1.3 > python-ldap-2.2.0-2.1 These releases are old: OpenLDAP 2.3.27 was released 2006-08-19 python-ldap 2.2.0 was released 2006-04-10 There have been numerous bug fixes to both packages since then. While I don't have a 64-bit box myself there were several related fixes contributed and tested by others. So I suggest to build recent releases of both from source and test with that. >>> Server is RHEL5.2 >> Hmm, isn't this quite old? I'd guess old versions of python-ldap and >> OpenLDAP are shipped with this release. > > Err RHEL5.2 is the latest stable I believe. Whatever stable means to Red Hat for these particular packages. Sorry, if you insist on using these ancient versions I have to point you to Red Hat's support. Ciao, Michael. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Python-LDAP-dev mailing list Python-LDAP-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/python-ldap-dev
