After looking through this, I've discovered the problem. The web2py launcher application tries to create <web2py_dir>/ applications/__init__.py before creating <web2py_dir>/applications
Simply reordering these 2 lines fixes the issue. On Jun 14, 10:35 am, José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sorry but I don't understand what you mean. > In brief: > - does it work in Debian? I'm not an Ubuntu user, so I haven't tested > it in Ubuntu, but it should work as I can't think of any type of > difference in both distributions that could affect to the package. In > fact, Ubuntu people take it as it is from Debian, without modifying a > line > - does the previous version work in your system? > - > > 2011/6/14 davidrsmorris <[email protected]>: > > > Important detail: this is when running the Sid package under Ubuntu > > (natty). > > That's calling it from my home directory. > > It worked initially; I had purged the unpatched version, which had > > correctly setup ~/web2py. > > Installing the new package worked, but I touched __init__.py to test > > the same error on > > another machine, which was a clean install. > > I don't understand what you did. Did it work before you create the > __init__.py file or it did't work unless you created it. > > Could you open a terminal and do this: > mkdir /tmp/testw2py > cd /tmp/testw2py > web2py > > and then, close it, and send me the terminal output if it fails in some way? > > Regards. > José L. > > > > > > > > > > > Of course, putting __init__.py does not work, and neither does > > anything else, including moving the entire ~/web2py directory so that > > the package will recreate it. > > > On Jun 14, 2:23 am, José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> 2011/6/13 davidrsmorris <[email protected]>: > > >> > The patched package only produces "deposit" in web2py folder. > >> > I then get the following fatal error message: > > >> > Traceback (most recent call last): > >> > File "/usr/bin/web2py", line 87, in <module> > >> > if not > >> > os.path.exists(module_web2py_applications):open(module_web2py_applications, > >> > 'w').close() > >> > IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/dmorris/Downloads/ > >> > applications/__init__.py' > > >> How are you launching web2py? from a shell o from the menu?, I guess > >> you're launching it from the shell, but in a directory where you've > >> created manually the applications directory. If not, please, tell me > >> how are you launching it and what was in the directory previously. If > >> it was not empty, some of the needed directories might have not been > >> created. This is not related to the latest web2py package version, it > >> would have happen with any previous version of it.
