[virt-tools-list] [BUG] [virt-manager] [tip] checking for virtinst fails

[Cole Robinson]

On 11/12/2009 10:30 AM, Jon Nordby wrote:
> Introduced by cfd9ab725445. Errormessage:
> 
> "Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/home/jon/local/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 401, in
> <module>
>     main()
>   File "/home/jon/local/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 304, in
> main
>     raise RuntimeError(str(e) + "\n\n" + msg)
> RuntimeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__version__'
> 
> virt-manager requires the python-virtinst library version 0.400.3 or
> greater. This can be downloaded at:
> 
> http://virt-manager.org/download.html"
>

You'll need to pull virtinst from source to resolve this. Yesterday I
added the __version__ value to virtinst to help resolve dependency issues.

The issue here is people building a virt-manager release but not
updating virtinst, and then virt-manager bombs out trying to use a new
virtinst feature. virtinst and virt-manager are pretty much developed in
lockstep, so this happens just about every release. We should probably
merge the two projects into one tar.gz release but I haven't looked into
that yet.

For people like yourself building from upstream this will be a one time
annoyance. I probably should have sent an email to the list, sorry about
that. Since you are doing virt-manager work, it is probably good to get
into the habit of updating virtinst from source regularly.

> I have virtinst 0.500.0 installed and it is working as expected.
>>>> import virtinst
>>>> dir(virtinst)
> ['CapabilitiesParser', 'CloneDesign', 'CloneManager', 'DistroInstaller',
> 'FullVirtGuest', 'Guest', 'ImageFetcher', 'ImageInstaller', 'ImageManager',
> 'ImageParser', 'ImportInstaller', 'Installer', 'LiveCDInstaller',
> 'NodeDeviceParser', 'OSDistro', 'PXEInstaller', 'ParaVirtGuest', 'Storage',
> 'User', 'VirtualAudio', 'VirtualCharDevice', 'VirtualDevice', 'VirtualDisk',
> 'VirtualGraphics', 'VirtualHostDevice', 'VirtualHostDevicePCI',
> 'VirtualHostDeviceUSB', 'VirtualInputDevice', 'VirtualNetworkInterface',
> 'VirtualVideoDevice', 'XenDisk', 'XenGuest', 'XenNetworkInterface',
> '__all__', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__package__',
> '__path__', '_util', '_virtinst', 'gettext', 'gettext_app', 'gettext_dir',
> 'osdict', 'util']
> 
> Grepping for a version attribute in the installed virtinst code did not
> yield anything useful either so it seem that this attribute is indeed
> missing?
> 
> And please avoid catch all exception checking.
> 

In this case the catch all exception checking is doing what is intended.
If importing virtinst and checking __version__ fails for any reason, I'd
rather show an explicit error about the virtinst lib, rather than the
generic error dialog we raise for startup errors.

Sorry for the inconvenience,
Cole