Ah ha! I think I have nailed the issue, at least for me: it's a combination of a python module import path error, and left over debris of an earlier virtinst: take a look:
First, notice that my python doesn't even have a module path that includes /usr/share/pyshared: pjs11@patslinux01 ~ $ python Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:57:41) [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.path ['', '/usr/lib/python2.6', '/usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Numeric', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gst-0.10', '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/gtk-2.0', '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages'] >>> Next, notice that I have multiple instances of the python virtinst package, and one is considerably older: pjs11@patslinux01 ~ $ ls -idl /usr/share/pyshared/virtinst* /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst* 438053 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-02-18 11:45 /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst 438054 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 2010-04-08 16:38 /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst-0.300.2.egg-info -> /usr/share/pyshared/virtinst-0.300.2.egg-info 398964 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-02-18 11:51 /usr/share/pyshared/virtinst 621357 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 275 2010-10-12 15:32 /usr/share/pyshared/virtinst-0.500.1-py2.6.egg-info And notice that the older one is not owned by any package: pjs11@patslinux01 ~ $ dpkg-query --search /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst* dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst not found. dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst-0.300.2.egg-info not found. Finally, notice that if I make use of the current directory import path in my sys.path (the null string ""), by cd'ing to /usr/share/pyshared, then "import virtinst" works: pjs11@patslinux01 ~ $ cd /usr/share/pyshared pjs11@patslinux01 pyshared $ python Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:57:41) [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import virtinst >>> So, my fix is to first, delete the old, leftover and unowned package, and second fix my import path (and btw -- why does the sys import path even contain the current directory -- isn't that kinda a bad security policy?) I know how to do the first, I just delete the unowned files, but where do I adjust the second, the import path? Thanks, -- Pat -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/680627 Title: Error starting Virtual Machine Manager: No module named version -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
