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ninian

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[Solved] Recent updates cause Gramps error: No module named _bsddb

Did a 'pacman -Syu' today and Gramps fails to start:

$ gramps
2599: ERROR: gramps.py: line 142: Unhandled exception
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/gramps/gui/grampsgui.py", line 271, in __startgramps
    from GrampsLogger import RotateHandler, GtkHandler
  File "/usr/share/gramps/GrampsLogger/__init__.py", line 45, in <module>
    from _GtkHandler import GtkHandler
  File "/usr/share/gramps/GrampsLogger/_GtkHandler.py", line 4, in <module>
    from _ErrorView import ErrorView
  File "/usr/share/gramps/GrampsLogger/_ErrorView.py", line 15, in <module>
    from _ErrorReportAssistant import ErrorReportAssistant
  File "/usr/share/gramps/GrampsLogger/_ErrorReportAssistant.py", line 14, in <module>
    import bsddb
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/bsddb/__init__.py", line 67, in <module>
    import _bsddb
ImportError: No module named _bsddb

Was working fine a few days ago ...

Last edited by ninian (2011-07-07 20:20:32)

Fififox

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Registered: 2010-11-30

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Re: [Solved] Recent updates cause Gramps error: No module named _bsddb

Hi !

My mother faces the same problem, it seems that the `db' package (`bsddb' as python2 names it) was updated today, most probably breaking something in python2, which was also updated today... So it's a problem in python2 itself, more than in gramps (as can be seen from the error in python2's bsddb __init__, in the OP).

EDIT: From old bug reports seen on the net, it would have to do with the presence of BerkeleyDB headers when python is compiled...

Last edited by Fififox (2011-07-06 20:57:11)

wonder

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Re: [Solved] Recent updates cause Gramps error: No module named _bsddb

report this bug on the tracker

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Allan

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Re: [Solved] Recent updates cause Gramps error: No module named _bsddb

I needs python2-bsddb as a dependency.  This has been removed from the python2 package due to that having an old version that did not work with the current db.

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Fififox

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Registered: 2010-11-30

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Re: [Solved] Recent updates cause Gramps error: No module named _bsddb

Please put it in the bug report, as installing python2-bsddb didn't seem to fix the issue...
Report for python2: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25045 [CLOSED]

EDIT:
In fact, the problem comes from gramps, which should import bsddb3, see GRAMPS wiki.
Report for gramps (the config should be changed to use bsddb3 by default): https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25050

Last edited by Fififox (2011-07-07 08:54:32)

ninian

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Re: [Solved] Recent updates cause Gramps error: No module named _bsddb

Today's 'pacman -Syu' has fixed the problem for me.
Thanks for the swift updates to fix this.