#21799 Pants cannot be bootstrapped on Fedora Kinoite 41. Python exception. ModuleNotFoundError: No module named pex. Issue created by tymonx Describe the bug Pants cannot be bootstrapped on Fedora Kinote 41. When running

pants

to initialize project workspace on empty directory:

Bootstrapping Pants 2.23.1
Installing pantsbuild.pants==2.23.1 into a virtual environment at ~/.cache/nce/830340ce637c599fc91aa9134dedaf6fcc4aa28cff14aaee2d17a9fb389f3788/bindings/venvs/2.23.1
Failed to create Pants virtual environment.
Error: Command '['~/.cache/nce/830340ce637c599fc91aa9134dedaf6fcc4aa28cff14aaee2d17a9fb389f3788/bindings/pex_root/venvs/e9325278eb97b235cc28d540e6599e7f5e69fa25/26370fab5363b5853491d34b76f797698ceb0767/bin/python', '/tmp/tmpkopo2xsh.pex', 'venv', '--prompt', 'Pants 2.23.1', '--compile', '--pip', '--collisions-ok', '--no-emit-warnings', '--disable-cache', '~/.cache/nce/830340ce637c599fc91aa9134dedaf6fcc4aa28cff14aaee2d17a9fb389f3788/bindings/venvs/2.23.1']' returned non-zero exit status 1., output:
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b'Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File "~/.cache/nce/67912efc04f9156d8f5b48a0348983defb964de043b8c13ddc6cc8a002f8e691/cpython-3.9.18+20240107-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-install_only.tar.gz/python/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main\n    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,\n  File "~/.cache/nce/67912efc04f9156d8f5b48a0348983defb964de043b8c13ddc6cc8a002f8e691/cpython-3.9.18+20240107-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-install_only.tar.gz/python/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code\n    exec(code, run_globals)\n  File "~/.cache/pex/unzipped_pexes/184d8f123e01bce47c107d40e58a3212c8ef50ce/__main__.py", line 227, in <module>\n    result, should_exit, is_globals = boot(\n  File "~/.cache/pex/unzipped_pexes/184d8f123e01bce47c107d40e58a3212c8ef50ce/__main__.py", line 216, in boot\n    from pex.globals import Globals\nModuleNotFoundError: No module named \'pex\'\n'
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Error: Failed to establish atomic directory ~/.cache/nce/830340ce637c599fc91aa9134dedaf6fcc4aa28cff14aaee2d17a9fb389f3788/locks/install-fca0ceb9acf25d23ab8b8e9bc412050c77ce104d267a0f5b464bc31a13da0ce6. Population of work directory failed: Boot binding command failed: exit status: 1

Python version

3.13.1

.

pants

cannot be ran natively on Fedora Kinoite 41 but it can ran using Python container image with the same Python version:

podman run -it --rm --userns keep-id --workdir "$(pwd)" --volume "$(pwd):$(pwd):rw,z" python:3.13.1 bash

It looks like something related with Linux distribution Atomic OS and Python

pex

. Related: #18517 Pants version

2.31.1

OS

Linux Fedora Kinoite 41.

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