Message10100

I'd like to see this re-opened. I'm seeing the same symptoms.

> java -jar jython-installer-2.7.0.jar --type standard --silent --directory /opt/jython
...
Installing pip and setuptools
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[INFO] Unable to bind key for unsupported operation: backward-delete-word
[INFO] Unable to bind key for unsupported operation: backward-delete-word
[INFO] Unable to bind key for unsupported operation: down-history
[INFO] Unable to bind key for unsupported operation: up-history
[INFO] Unable to bind key for unsupported operation: up-history
[INFO] Unable to bind key for unsupported operation: down-history
[INFO] Unable to bind key for unsupported operation: up-history
[INFO] Unable to bind key for unsupported operation: down-history
[INFO] Unable to bind key for unsupported operation: up-history
[INFO] Unable to bind key for unsupported operation: down-history
[INFO] Unable to bind key for unsupported operation: up-history
[INFO] Unable to bind key for unsupported operation: down-history
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/jython/Lib/runpy.py", line 161, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "/opt/jython/Lib/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/opt/jython/Lib/ensurepip/__main__.py", line 4, in <module>
    ensurepip._main()
  File "/opt/jython/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 220, in _main
    bootstrap(
  File "/opt/jython/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 123, in bootstrap
    _run_pip(args + [p[0] for p in _PROJECTS], additional_paths)
  File "/opt/jython/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 45, in _run_pip
    import pip
  File "/tmp/tmpIBC_DL/pip-1.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
  File "/tmp/tmpIBC_DL/pip-1.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/util.py", line 17, in <module>
  File "/tmp/tmpIBC_DL/pip-1.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/locations.py", line 109, in <module>
  File "/tmp/tmpIBC_DL/pip-1.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/locations.py", line 71, in _get_build_prefix
  File "/tmp/tmpIBC_DL/pip-1.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/locations.py", line 66, in __get_username
  File "/opt/jython/Lib/pwd.py", line 60, in getpwuid
    return struct_passwd(entry)
  File "/opt/jython/Lib/pwd.py", line 36, in __new__
    pwd = (newStringOrUnicode(pwd.loginName), newStringOrUnicode(pwd.password), int(pwd.UID),
NotImplementedError: passwd.pw_passwd unimplemented
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Congratulations! You successfully installed Jython 2.7.0 to directory /opt/jython.


context:

> java -version
java version "1.7.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build pxa6470sr8fp10-20141219_01(SR8 FP10))
IBM J9 VM (build 2.6, JRE 1.7.0 Linux amd64-64 Compressed References 20141216_227497 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
J9VM - R26_Java726_SR8_20141216_0955_B227497
JIT  - r11.b07_20141003_74578.05
GC   - R26_Java726_SR8_20141216_0955_B227497_CMPRSS
J9CL - 20141216_227497)
JCL - 20141217_01 based on Oracle jdk7u75-b12

> cat /etc/SuSE-release 
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
VERSION = 11
PATCHLEVEL = 3

> uname -a
Linux ... 3.0.101-0.47.52-default #1 SMP Thu Mar 26 10:55:49 UTC 2015 (0e3c7c8) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux