2009/1/21 Yan Gao <[email protected]>: > On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:41 +0100, J. Friedrich wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> [...] >> >> Unfortunately the pymgmt.py is not included in the built when >> python2.2 is intalled. Also tried it directly from source, it also >> lacks the pymgmgt.py file. When I use the same version and the same >> parameters on a RedHat machine with python 2.3 or python 2.4 (i.e. >> RHEL 4) it works flawlessly and like a charm. Am I right that at least >> version 2.3 is needed to correctly build and install the HB gui? > Never tested it with python < 2.3. But I think so.
OK, that explains why it has worked for me with RHEL 4 and python 2.3. >> I tried other RPMs of heartbeat from different sources, but everytime >> I installed them and tried to run the GUI, I receive the following >> error message (on the RHEL3, with Python 2.2) >> >> File "/usr/local/bin/hb_gui", line 34, in ? >> from pymgmt import * >> File "/usr/lib/heartbeat-gui/pymgmt.py", line 5, in ? >> import _pymgmt >> ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function (init_pymgmt) > Were the RPMs built on the distribution you are using? Yes, I built the RPMs on a RHEL 3 machine but with a manuel Python 2.3 installation. >> I do not know much about Python, but it seems that the initialisation >> has changed from Python 2.2 to Python 2.3/2.4. Am I correct? Is there >> a way to get the GUI up and running with this rather old version of >> Python? > I don't think there's any easy way to do this. Besides, it requires > pygtk > 2.4 I feared that you would say something like this ;-). >> [...] >> [ ... some of my explanations with several GUI and heartbeat versions ...] >> [...] >> > You still can run the front-end of the GUI on a newer distribution, and > connect to the back-end on the RHEL3, but the both sides should be the > same version. OK thanks for the information. I will build a verison 2.0.8 on a machine with a newer distribution. Thanks for your fast reply and your informative answer! Best regards, ./~ Jason _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
