[virt-tools-list] virt-manager reporting wrong virtinst version and refuse to start

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Tue Feb 15 19:54:37 UTC 2011 

On 02/15/2011 02:18 PM, Bruno Lamps wrote:
> Running from outside the virtinst directory:
> 
> lamps at ubunteira:/opt/virtinst-0.500.5$ cd /
> lamps at ubunteira:/$ python -c 'import virtinst; print virtinst'
> <module 'virtinst' from '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/virtinst/__init__.pyc'>
> 
> Running python setup.py install --prefix=/usr and trying to launch
> virt-manager resulted in the same error message, but using "PYTHONPATH=..." to
> launch virt-manager works! Thanks!
> 
> It will be necessary to change this path everytime I run virt-manager? Is it
> possible to make some sort of workaround? =]

You should be able to mess with setup.py install arguments to install virtinst
into /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6, which is where ubuntu seems to store
things, or some other place in the default python path.

See python -c 'import sys; print sys.path' to see all the place python looks
for modules on your system.

See python setup.py install --help to see available install options.

- Cole

> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com
> <mailto:crobinso at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 02/15/2011 01:59 PM, Bruno Lamps wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > There's a thread with this same title, in this list, from august 2010. Link:
>     > https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2010-August/msg00075.html
>     >
>     > I got this same problem. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 x64. I made some tests
>     with
>     > virt-manager 0.8.2, installed from ubuntu repositories, and then downloaded
>     > the newest virt-manager and virt-inst from virt-manager website.
>     Compiled both
>     > sources as usual (opening INSTALL and following the instructions), but got
>     > that error when trying to launch virt-manager:
>     >
>     >     Erro ao iniciar o Gerenciador de Máquina Virtual: virtinst version
>     0.500.1
>     >     is too old.
>     >
>     >     virt-manager requires the python-virtinst library version 0.500.5 or
>     >     greater. This can be downloaded at:
>     >
>     >     http://virt-manager.org/download.html
>     >
>     >     Traceback (most recent call last):
>     >       File "/usr/local/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 455, in
>     <module>
>     >         main()
>     >       File "/usr/local/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 370, in
>     main
>     >         "\n\n" + msg)
>     >     RuntimeError: virtinst version 0.500.1 is too old.
>     >
>     >     virt-manager requires the python-virtinst library version 0.500.5 or
>     >     greater. This can be downloaded at:
>     >
>     >     http://virt-manager.org/download.html
>     >
>     >
>     > The output of
>     >
>     > python -c 'import virtinst; print virtinst'
>     >
>     > command is:
>     >
>     > lamps at ubunteira:/opt/virtinst-0.500.5$ python -c 'import virtinst; print
>     virtinst'
>     > <module 'virtinst' from 'virtinst/__init__.py'>
>     >
> 
>     Please show the output of that command when run from outside the virtinst
>     directory.
> 
>     > and the output for
>     >
>     > sudo python setup.py install
>     >
>     > is:
>     >
>     > lamps at ubunteira:/opt/virtinst-0.500.5$ sudo python setup.py install
>     > [sudo] password for lamps:
>     > running install
>     > running build
>     > Building build/po/ja/virtinst.mo from ja.po
>     > Building build/po/it/virtinst.mo from it.po
>     > Building build/po/nl/virtinst.mo from nl.po
>     > Building build/po/ru/virtinst.mo from ru.po
>     > Building build/po/sr at latin/virtinst.mo from sr at latin.po
>     > Building build/po/es/virtinst.mo from es.po
>     > Building build/po/zh_CN/virtinst.mo from zh_CN.po
>     > Building build/po/sr/virtinst.mo from sr.po
>     > Building build/po/uk/virtinst.mo from uk.po
>     > Building build/po/fr/virtinst.mo from fr.po
>     > Building build/po/pt_BR/virtinst.mo from pt_BR.po
>     > Building build/po/pl/virtinst.mo from pl.po
>     > running build_py
>     > package init file 'virtconv/parsers/__init__.py' not found (or not a
>     regular file)
>     > package init file 'virtconv/parsers/__init__.py' not found (or not a
>     regular file)
>     > running build_scripts
>     > running install_lib
>     > copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/virtconv/__init__.py ->
>     > /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtconv
>     > copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/virtinst/__init__.py ->
>     > /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst
>     > byte-compiling
>     /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtconv/__init__.py to
>     > __init__.pyc
>     > byte-compiling
>     /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst/__init__.py to
>     > __init__.pyc
>     > running install_scripts
>     > changing mode of /usr/local/bin/virt-install to 755
>     > changing mode of /usr/local/bin/virt-image to 755
>     > changing mode of /usr/local/bin/virt-convert to 755
>     > changing mode of /usr/local/bin/virt-clone to 755
>     > running install_data
>     > Installing build/po/pl/virtinst.mo to share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > Installing build/po/pt_BR/virtinst.mo to share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > Installing build/po/ja/virtinst.mo to share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > Installing build/po/sr/virtinst.mo to share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > Installing build/po/es/virtinst.mo to share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > Installing build/po/uk/virtinst.mo to share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > Installing build/po/sr at latin/virtinst.mo to
>     share/locale/sr at latin/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > Installing build/po/nl/virtinst.mo to share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > Installing build/po/ru/virtinst.mo to share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > Installing build/po/zh_CN/virtinst.mo to share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > Installing build/po/it/virtinst.mo to share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > Installing build/po/fr/virtinst.mo to share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > copying build/po/pl/virtinst.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > copying build/po/pt_BR/virtinst.mo ->
>     /usr/local/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > copying build/po/ja/virtinst.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > copying build/po/sr/virtinst.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > copying build/po/es/virtinst.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > copying build/po/uk/virtinst.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > copying build/po/sr at latin/virtinst.mo ->
>     > /usr/local/share/locale/sr at latin/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > copying build/po/nl/virtinst.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > copying build/po/ru/virtinst.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > copying build/po/zh_CN/virtinst.mo ->
>     /usr/local/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > copying build/po/it/virtinst.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > copying build/po/fr/virtinst.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/
>     > running install_egg_info
>     > Removing /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst-0.500.5.egg-info
>     > Writing /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst-0.500.5.egg-info
>     >
>     >
>     > Does anybody have some hint about fixing this?
>     >
>     > Thanks in advance ;D
> 
>     My guess is that /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages is not in the default
>     PYTHONPATH.
> 
>     You can either run virt-manager like
>     'PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages virt-manager', or reinstall
>     python-virtinst with
> 
>     python setup.py install --prefix=/usr
> 
>     - Cole
> 
> 
>

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