Comment 3 for bug 656303

I have seen something similar earlier this week. I do not have any logs, but think it was like this:

- Linux, python2.4, setuptools 0.6c9 somewhere in /usr/lib

- As bootstrap.py: curl -O http://svn.zope.org/*checkout*/zc.buildout/tags/1.4.4/bootstrap/bootstrap.py

- python2.4 bootstrap.py gives an error like: "Cannot upgrade setuptools distribution while running this process." The bootstrap tries to install a file in /usr/lib which this user is not authorized to do.

- In this case I did 'python2.4 bootstrap.py --distribute' which succeeded.

- In a previous case I did 'sudo easy_install -U setuptools' to get setuptools 0.6c11, after which the bootstrap (without --distribute) works fine again.