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Problem in Restartting/Reloading of splunk

Madhan45
Path Finder

While Restartting/Reloading of splunk it showed some error in splunk/lib/python2.7. So I deleted the entire directory python2.7 now it is showing below errors

Could not find platform independent libraries
Could not find platform independent libraries
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to [:]
ImportError: No module named site

What could be the root cause?

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ddrillic
Ultra Champion

If you are not on the latest version, you might consider upgrading. splunk/lib/python2.7 should be re-created.

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renjith_nair
Legend

splunk/lib/python2.7 has all the libraries splunk basically uses and splunk will not be able to work without them.Removing the lib folder is almost same as removing entire splunk installation. In other words, starting a vehicle after removing it's engine :-). You might need to reinstall splunk to make it working again since the binaries are strongly coupled.

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Madhan45
Path Finder

What if I copy the same python2.7 from some other Splunk?

Will it crash existing Splunk ?

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renjith_nair
Legend

you can from the same version though never tried that

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Madhan45
Path Finder

Its working.. but now the problem is im not able to reload. But start/stop/restarting is working fine

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renjith_nair
Legend

What you mean by reload? what are the actions and error messages?

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