what could be causing a dlopen() issue when importing graph_tool?

graph-tool
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I've installed the 2.2.31-1 graph-tool package for Ubuntu 13.10 x86_64 on my
system. Although I can import it from within a regular Python 2.7.5 session
without any problems, I can't seem to import it successfully from within a virtualenv in which I've
installed a range of other packages (the virtualenv is configured to also access
globally installed Python packages):

import graph_tool

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/graph_tool/__init__.py", line 100, in <module>
    dl_import("from . import libgraph_tool_core as libcore")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/graph_tool/dl_import.py", line 57, in
    dl_import exec(import_expr, local_dict, global_dict)
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/graph_tool/libgraph_tool_core.so: invalid mode for dlopen(): Invalid argument

Before I manually go through all of the packages installed in the virtualenv,
does anyone have any ideas as to what sort of things might be causing
the above import problem?

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I've had some problems with this in the past with other boost.python
modules (see:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19663366/dlopen-fails-in-boost-python-module).
Here are some context managers I use to import modules that are causing
me problems:

from contextlib import contextmanager
import sys

@contextmanager
def preserve_dlopenflags(flags):
    """A context manager that temporarily sets the dlopen flags and then returns them to previous values.
    """
    outer_flags = sys.getdlopenflags()
    try:
        sys.setdlopenflags(flags)
        yield
    finally:
        sys.setdlopenflags(outer_flags)

@contextmanager
def boost_python_dlopen_flags():
    """A context manager that temporarily sets the dlopen flags for loading multiple
    boost.python modules and then returns them to previous values.
    """
    flags = None
    try:
        import DLFCN
        flags = DLFCN.RTLD_NOW | DLFCN.RTLD_GLOBAL
    except:
        import warnings
        warnings.warn('Do not know which dlopen flags to set.')
    if None != flags:
        with preserve_dlopenflags(flags):
            yield
    else:
        yield

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Received from John Reid on Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:04:54AM EDT: