the PyQt4.QtCore module failed to register with the sip module

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I am running QGIS on Linux Fedora. Everything was fine until I upgraded to Fedora 29. Now, each time I launch QGIS or run a python script, I have the following message:

RuntimeError: the PyQt4.QtCore module failed to register with the sip module

after I import qgis._gui. I'm not sure what it means. Is it a problem with my sip version, some path to fix? I am running QGIS 2.18.20, sip-4.19.13 and Python 2.7.15. Thanks

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1 Answers

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After unsuccessful debugging and googling about the very same issue, I've upgraded to 3.4 version from copr repository:

    dnf copr enable dani/qgis
    install qgis python3-qgis

Now python works and I can QGIS again, seems the developers are not too keen to solve 2.18 version errors.