Comment 26 for bug 248558

Seeing this again on F17:

# virtualenv /tmp/env
New python executable in /tmp/env/bin/python
Installing setuptools............done.
Installing pip...............done.

# python -c 'import sys; print "\n".join(sys.path)' | grep -v '\.local'

/usr/lib64/python27.zip
/usr/lib64/python2.7
/usr/lib64/python2.7/plat-linux2
/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-tk
/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-old
/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/PIL
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gst-0.10
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg-info

# /tmp/env/bin/python -c 'import sys; print "\n".join(sys.path)'

/tmp/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg
/tmp/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg
/tmp/env/lib64/python27.zip
/tmp/env/lib64/python2.7
/tmp/env/lib64/python2.7/plat-linux2
/tmp/env/lib64/python2.7/lib-tk
/tmp/env/lib64/python2.7/lib-old
/tmp/env/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload
/usr/lib/python2.7
/usr/lib64/python2.7
/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-tk
/tmp/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages

This yields to import failures, e.g.

# python -c 'import yaml'
# /tmp/env/bin/python -c 'import yaml'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named yaml