[virt-tools-list] 'module' object has no attribute '__version__'

[Cole Robinson]

On 02/14/2014 02:50 PM, James Clement wrote:
> I recently tried to install virt-manager on RHEL 6.5 and I get the following
> error when trying to start virt-manager
> 
> Here is the debug output:
> 
> [root at al11 python2.6]# virt-manager --debug
> 2014-02-14 13:44:32,521 (cli:71): virt-manager startup
> 2014-02-14 13:44:32,522 (virt-manager:292): Launched as:
> /usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py --debug
> 2014-02-14 13:44:32,522 (virt-manager:293): GTK version: (2, 20, 1)
> 2014-02-14 13:44:32,522 (virt-manager:294): virtManager import: <module
> 'virtManager' from '/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/__init__.pyc'>
> 2014-02-14 13:44:32,549 (cli:110): Error import virtinst
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/cli.py", line 107, in
> check_virtinst_version
>     ignore = virtinst.__version__
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__version__'
> 2014-02-14 13:44:32,549 (virt-manager:390): 'module' object has no attribute
> '__version__'
> 
> virt-manager requires the python-virtinst library version 0.600.1 or greater.
> This can be downloaded at:
> 
> http://virt-manager.org/download.html
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 383, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 296, in main
>     cli.check_virtinst_version(virtinst_str)
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/cli.py", line 111, in
> check_virtinst_version
>     raise RuntimeError(str(e) + "\n\n" + msg)
> RuntimeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__version__'
> 
> virt-manager requires the python-virtinst library version 0.600.1 or greater.
> This can be downloaded at:
> 
> 
> According to Python, I have 0.600.4 installed:
> 
> [root at al11 python2.6]# python
> Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Nov 21 2013, 10:50:32)
> [GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import virtinst
>>>> print virtinst.__version__
> 0.600.4
>>>>
> 
> I am using 0.9.1 of virt-manager
> 
> [root at al11 python2.6]# virt-manager --version
> 0.9.1
> 
> 
> I am stumped. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

My guess is there's two copies of virtinst installed. Edit
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/cli.py and do 'print virtinst' right
before the virtinst.__version__ failure, and compare that to python -c 'import
virtinst; print virtinst'

- Cole