I keep my Jammy Ubuntu always up to date, with all updates installed almost daily. So everything I have installed is at its latest version.
I have installed two important applications: a Windows VM on libvirt + qemu, and docker (including docker compose).
One day, I noticed that the Virtual Machine Manager won't start anymore from gnome (I pinned it to my application bar). It just closes automatically, and the error it throws is:ImportError: cannot import name 'Mapping' from 'collections' (/usr/lib/python3.10/collections/init.py)
From command-line, the application, however, starts.
But then, I had to run a docker compose command (which had successfully completed the day before), which resulted in this:
docker-compose up -dTraceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/docker-compose", line 33, in <module> sys.exit(load_entry_point('docker-compose==1.29.2', 'console_scripts', 'docker-compose')()) File "/usr/bin/docker-compose", line 25, in importlib_load_entry_point return next(matches).load() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 171, in load module = import_module(match.group('module')) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1050, in _gcd_import File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1027, in _find_and_load File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 688, in _load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 883, in exec_module File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/compose/cli/main.py", line 13, in <module> import docker.errors File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/docker/__init__.py", line 1, in <module> from .api import APIClient File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/docker/api/__init__.py", line 1, in <module> from .client import APIClient File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/docker/api/client.py", line 6, in <module> import requests File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/__init__.py", line 43, in <module> import urllib3 File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/__init__.py", line 8, in <module> from .connectionpool import ( File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 29, in <module> from .connection import ( File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 39, in <module> from .util.ssl_ import ( File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/util/__init__.py", line 3, in <module> from .connection import is_connection_dropped File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/util/connection.py", line 3, in <module> from .wait import wait_for_read File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/util/wait.py", line 1, in <module> from .selectors import ( File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/util/selectors.py", line 14, in <module> from collections import namedtuple, MappingImportError: cannot import name 'Mapping' from 'collections' (/usr/lib/python3.10/collections/__init__.py)I have tried to re-install python, worked with chatGPT to try to resolve the issue, but nothing worked.
One thing I tried, was to run the same command as root. Surprise, as root, the same command works without a problem!
So there must be something related to my user settings that does not allow python to run.
However, there are no python folders in my ~Nothing in my .config related to python, and just a .local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ out of which I deleted all .pyc files, and a .local/bin/ that has several python files (I didn't delete those).
So, I tried all I could think of, re-installed python, pip, and now, I'm turning to you if you have any ideas, please help
My python version is 3.10.12
