[Grok-dev] bootstrap error [was: Relooking at Grok]

Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail kagesenshi.87 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 00:41:44 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Milind Khadilkar <zedobject at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Uli,
> I also tried with virtualenv a couple of days ago, but before realising that
> it would be a tough issue, and therefore did not look closely at the errors
> it produced. I will try again.
>
> Search led me to the same page that you have sent a link to, but I couldn't
> get much from it.
>
> Fedora per se does not matter much to us, and it might be easier to give up
> on it and try on another Linux distribution. However, if any one wants me to
> try out some alternatives to get *it* working, for R&D's sake, do let me
> know.

i'm on fedora and grok works fine here on python2.7 .. i do used
virtualenv to run bootstrap.py though, because running it using the
main system's python2.7  caused several conflicts with distro-packaged
eggs ..




>
> Thanks again.
> Milind Khadilkar
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Uli Fouquet <uli at gnufix.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Milind,
>>
>> On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:23:55 +0530 Milind Khadilkar wrote:
>> > Hello!
>> > Thanks, everyone, for encouraging me to get back onto grok. I have,
>> > since,
>> > installed grok on a Windows XP as well as on a couple of linuxes.
>> > However, I am unable to get it working on Fedora 17. I get the following
>> > error.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions?
>>
>> Looks indeed like a Fedora-zc.buildout-distutils-setuptools-specific
>> problem as mentioned here:
>>
>>   http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-distutils-sig/17392/
>>
>> and if the poster is right it might bite you also with other
>> Python-related packages.
>>
>> As a quick workaround you might have more luck with a virtualenv (with
>> --no-site-packages).
>>
>> I'm afraid there's not much we can do from the Grok-side about this (or
>> could we?).
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> --
>> Uli
>>
>
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