[Qgis-user] QGIS Python startup error - Incompatible SIP module

[James Meyer]

Hi
I am resending this message because the previous attempt was scrubbed as 
an HTML attachment.

I recently ran into an error while starting my QGIS application. Based 
on the errors below, I assume this is after I manually updated my SIP 
libraries to version 9.10.
At startup of QGIS an error is displayed saying that Python cannot be 
started and will be disabled.
The following detail is added to the error:

RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v7.0 to v7.1 but the 
PyQt4.QtCore module requires API v6.0

This error also prevents me from re-building and installing QGIS from 
source. The same error displays at 93% of insalling:
File “/usr/bin/pyuic4″, line 3, in
import PyQt4.uic.pyuic
File “/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/PyQt4/uic/pyuic.py”, line 4, in
from PyQt4 import QtCore
RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v7.0 to v7.1 but the 
PyQt4.QtCore module requires API v6.0

I’ve tried removing SIP completely and downloading the QGIS dependencies 
from scratch, but the error persists.
Any suggestions on what I should do?

I am running Ubuntu 9.10 32bit

Thanks

James