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Re: [Xen-users] cant start xend.

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 21:49 -0500, Brock Palen wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2007, at 9:40 PM, Tim Post wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 21:13 -0500, Brock Palen wrote:
> >> I have installed xen-3.0.4 from source.  It worked on one machine and
> >> xend start  works,  on the other though ( i thought i did the same on
> >> both but i guess i didn't)  I'm getting:
> >>
> >> xen2 ~ # xend start
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>    File "/usr/sbin/xend", line 47, in ?
> >>      libpath = xen.util.auxbin.libpath()
> >> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'libpath'
> >>
> >>
> >> Im using gentoo  There machines are brand new bare metal,  I have
> >> rebuilt xen a few times trying to make sure that a new /usr/lib64/
> >> python/xen  is put in place.  I even reinstalled python and tried but
> >> i still get the error.
[snip]
> 
> I just figured it out,  I had tried to use the gentoo packages before  
> i went with the official release.  I had a old xen python module  
> around that didnt support that command.  It was in /usr/lib64/ 
> python2.4/xen.  It belonged to the xen-tools package.  One i unmerged  
> it (emerge -C xen-tools)   I only had the one package in /usr/lib64/ 
> python/xen  placed by the installer.
> 
> I found this by using locate (or slocate), you could use find if you  
> wanted
> 
> locate auxbin.py
> 
> and make sure you dont have two installed!!
> 
> I hope that helps you out.  It worked perfect for me.
> 

I will try it :) That makes sense as I did come behind someone else who
had originally installed the binary packages, my first step in
correcting the error was building from mercurial ..which seems
compounded the problem.

I'll try it again this weekend and update so it goes in the archives
associated with Ubuntu as well.

Good sleuthing :)

Best,
--Tim




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