Handle SystemError when importing xml libraries.

3 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/bin/repoman b/bin/repoman
index 076d4042f..42539241e 100755
--- a/bin/repoman
+++ b/bin/repoman
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ portage.dep._internal_warnings = True
 try:
 	import xml.etree.ElementTree
 	from xml.parsers.expat import ExpatError
-except ImportError:
+except (ImportError, SystemError):
 	msg = ["Please enable python's \"xml\" USE flag in order to use repoman."]
 	from portage.output import EOutput
 	out = EOutput()
diff --git a/pym/portage/xml/metadata.py b/pym/portage/xml/metadata.py
index bed6a1e55..25f801a47 100644
--- a/pym/portage/xml/metadata.py
+++ b/pym/portage/xml/metadata.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2010-2011 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 2010-2012 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 """Provides an easy-to-use python interface to Gentoo's metadata.xml file.
@@ -42,12 +42,12 @@ if sys.hexversion < 0x2070000 or \
 else:
 	try:
 		import xml.etree.cElementTree as etree
-	except ImportError:
+	except (ImportError, SystemError):
 		import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree
 
 try:
 	from xml.parsers.expat import ExpatError
-except ImportError:
+except (ImportError, SystemError):
 	ExpatError = SyntaxError
 
 import re
diff --git a/pym/repoman/herdbase.py b/pym/repoman/herdbase.py
index 8ce36a704..91a32cb00 100644
--- a/pym/repoman/herdbase.py
+++ b/pym/repoman/herdbase.py
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # repoman: Herd database analysis
-# Copyright 2010-2011 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 2010-2012 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 or later
 
 import errno
 import xml.etree.ElementTree
 try:
 	from xml.parsers.expat import ExpatError
-except ImportError:
+except (ImportError, SystemError):
 	# This means that python is built without xml support.
 	# We tolerate global scope import failures for optional
 	# modules, so that ImportModulesTestCase can succeed (or