Bootstrap doesn't work when the python-pkg-resources is installed in Debian systems
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Buildout |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I'm trying to bootstrap a buildout on a newly installed Ubuntu Lucid Lynx system, and the bootstrap fails with:
# python2.4 bootstrap.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "bootstrap.py", line 112, in ?
PYTHONPATH=
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'location'
The line where it fails is:
assert os.spawnle(
os.P_WAIT, sys.executable, quote (sys.executable),
'-c', quote (cmd), '-mqNxd', quote (tmpeggs), 'zc.buildout' + VERSION,
),
) == 0
I was able to solve the problem by removing the python-