{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pypa/virtualenv/issues/605","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pypa/virtualenv/issues/605/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pypa/virtualenv/issues/605/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pypa/virtualenv/issues/605/events","html_url":"https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/605","id":33010103,"number":605,"title":"option always-copy doesn't work with OOTB CentOS 6.5","user":{"login":"ericfrederich","id":1167238,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1167238?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ericfrederich","html_url":"https://github.com/ericfrederich","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ericfrederich/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ericfrederich/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ericfrederich/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ericfrederich/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ericfrederich/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ericfrederich/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ericfrederich/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ericfrederich/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ericfrederich/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2014-05-07T18:12:02Z","updated_at":"2015-08-12T22:34:58Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Using the latest release of CentOS (6.5)\r\nInstall virtualenv as root:\r\n\r\n```\r\nyum install python-setuptools\r\neasy_install pip\r\npip install virtualenv\r\n```\r\n\r\nAs a regular user try to use --always-copy option with virtualenv:\r\n\r\n```\r\n$ virtualenv --always-copy foo\r\nCannot find file lib (bad symlink)\r\nNew python executable in foo/bin/python\r\nInstalling setuptools, pip...\r\n  Complete output from command /home/frede00e/foo/bin/python -c \"import sys, pip; sys...d\\\"] + sys.argv[1:]))\" setuptools pip:\r\n  Traceback (most recent call last):\r\n  File \"<string>\", line 1, in <module>\r\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip-1.5.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/__init__.py\", line 9, in <module>\r\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip-1.5.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/log.py\", line 6, in <module>\r\n  File \"/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/__init__.py\", line 34, in <module>\r\n    import sys, os, types, time, string, cStringIO, traceback\r\nImportError: No module named time\r\n----------------------------------------\r\n...Installing setuptools, pip...done.\r\nTraceback (most recent call last):\r\n  File \"/usr/bin/virtualenv\", line 9, in <module>\r\n    load_entry_point('virtualenv==1.11.5', 'console_scripts', 'virtualenv')()\r\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtualenv.py\", line 824, in main\r\n    symlink=options.symlink)\r\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtualenv.py\", line 992, in create_environment\r\n    install_wheel(to_install, py_executable, search_dirs)\r\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtualenv.py\", line 960, in install_wheel\r\n    'PIP_NO_INDEX': '1'\r\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtualenv.py\", line 902, in call_subprocess\r\n    % (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))\r\nOSError: Command /home/frede00e/foo/bin/python -c \"import sys, pip; sys...d\\\"] + sys.argv[1:]))\" setuptools pip failed with error code 1```"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pypa/virtualenv/issues/comments/130467902","html_url":"https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/605#issuecomment-130467902","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pypa/virtualenv/issues/605","id":130467902,"user":{"login":"selurvedu","id":11262062,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11262062?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/selurvedu","html_url":"https://github.com/selurvedu","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/selurvedu/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/selurvedu/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/selurvedu/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/selurvedu/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/selurvedu/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/selurvedu/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/selurvedu/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/selurvedu/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/selurvedu/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-08-12T22:34:58Z","updated_at":"2015-08-12T22:34:58Z","body":"I've encountered this issue on Gentoo x86_64 too. The error messages are same as above, except one thing – this happens with Python 2.7."}}