AWS Lambda Python libssl C Library

Question

I am trying to make a deployment package for the service Pusher in Python on AWS Lambda.

When I run simple code like this

from pusher import Pusher
def pusherTest(context, event):
    mypusher = Pusher(app_id=u'***', key=u'***', secret=u'***')
    mypusher.trigger('testchannel', 'testevent', {u'some': u'data'})

I'm getting this stack trace:

libssl.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory: ImportError
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/task/Lambda.py", line 3, in pusherTest
    mypusher = Pusher(app_id=u'***', key=u'***', secret='***')
  File "/var/task/pusher/pusher.py", line 42, in __init__
    from pusher.requests import RequestsBackend
  File "/var/task/pusher/requests.py", line 12, in <module>
    import urllib3.contrib.pyopenssl
  File "/var/task/urllib3/contrib/pyopenssl.py", line 54, in <module>
    import OpenSSL.SSL
  File "/var/task/OpenSSL/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    from OpenSSL import rand, crypto, SSL
  File "/var/task/OpenSSL/rand.py", line 12, in <module>
    from OpenSSL._util import (
  File "/var/task/OpenSSL/_util.py", line 6, in <module>
    from cryptography.hazmat.bindings.openssl.binding import Binding
  File "/var/task/cryptography/hazmat/bindings/openssl/binding.py", line 15, in <module>
    from cryptography.hazmat.bindings._openssl import ffi, lib
ImportError: libssl.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I believe libssl is a C library and since I don't have access to the Lambda machine to install these types of dependencies, how could I make this work?

On what Linux distro are you building the deployment package? — helloV
– helloV, Commented Apr 7, 2016 at 12:04
Hi @jamesmpw, Did you use Pusher in lambda? I installed pusher in the amazon-linux, but I still have this problem: "errorType": "ImportError", "errorMessage": "No module named cryptography.hazmat.bindings.openssl.binding", Did you have this problem before ? — José Castro
– José Castro, Commented Sep 12, 2016 at 21:48
Hmm I kind of remember that but I can't recall what I did to fix it. are you using virtualenv? — jamesmpw
– jamesmpw, Commented Sep 12, 2016 at 21:50
This question looks like a special case of: stackoverflow.com/questions/57894698/… — Att Righ
– Att Righ, Commented Sep 23, 2021 at 10:25
Also it's ind of a special case of this one: stackoverflow.com/questions/45044358/… — Att Righ
– Att Righ, Commented Sep 23, 2021 at 10:33

Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2023-03-18 13:55:45Z

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I had the same problem and I had the chance to really understand what is the hint here. The follow error is clearing say to us that the library libssl.so is not there...

ImportError: libssl.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I would expect that it is there ... After all Amazon Linux is a linux distro and libssl should be there. But I do not know ... may be it is not directly accessible from the lambda function.

To solve the problem I added the library in the zip bundle

cd /usr/lib64
zip -u /tmp/lambda.zip libssl.so.1.0.0

I redeployed and the error was different. Eureka!

Another library was missed. The libcrypto. I did the same task and now my lambda function is working as expected.

cd /usr/lib64
zip -u /tmp/lambda.zip libcrypto.so.1.0.0

edited Mar 18, 2023 at 13:55

Peter Mortensen

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answered Jan 13, 2017 at 13:28

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3 Comments

human Over a year ago

This is brilliant! As a footnote: I could not locate libssl.so.1.0.0 in miniconda3/envs/xxx/lib/. But i found it in /home/ubuntu/miniconda3/lib/

trincot Over a year ago

Your answer has been used (anonymised) to demo a new feature on meta (see point 3 of original post) ;-)

GrafiCode Over a year ago

Also here: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/422723/…

Jack · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-27 20:27:37Z

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So for me the fix was to move the libraries files into the root folder like so:

The files in question were in PIL > .libs

answered Mar 27, 2019 at 20:27

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