kiki crashed with ImportError in <module>()

[picobird]

Binary package hint: kiki

python-wxgtk2.6 conflict with python-wxgtk2.8

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: /usr/bin/lsb_release:81: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated import sets Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/kiki
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: kiki 0.5.6-3.1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/kiki
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/kiki']
SourcePackage: kiki
Title: kiki crashed with ImportError in <module>()
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/kiki", line 3, in <module>
     import kiki
 ImportError: No module named kiki
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-8-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Durand D'souza (durand1)]

I get the same problem. Another problem is that kiki tries to install the python-wxgtk2.6 dependency which it doesn't actually need as python-wxgtk2.8 will do. It also doesn't need to *be* a dependency for spe. If I remove kiki because python-wxgtk2.6 keeps crashing on install, spe is also removed even though I still want it.

[markb (mark-blakeney)]

This is probably not the appropriate place to report this but it seems to be related. I have noticed a number of wxpython apps have started crashing since I installed spe on my ubuntu jaunty box. I have traced the problem to the fact that, even though I have wxpython2.8 installed, when I installed spe it installed kiki which installed wxpython2.6 and that seems to have become the default wxpython version. So any wx2.8 specific app dies now. If I uninstall kiki (which removes wx2.6), then everything returns to ok. There's probably 2 bugs here - kiki requiring an old wx version and the fact it gets installed as the default?

[picobird (picobird)]

try this one, i have made a deb !it will not depend wxpython-2.6

just change the rules and control of kiki source package,and regenerate the kiki.wxg by the python-wxGlade.

[Stani (stani)]

This has been fixed in the wxpython packages. To demonstrate:
$ python
Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:58:18)
[GCC 4.3.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import kiki
>>> kiki.__file__
'/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/kiki/__init__.pyc'

Some comments here are about other bugs:

@Durand
I posted a fix for the dependency of kiki on python-wxgtk2.6
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kiki/+bug/370839

@markb
Even with python-wxgtk2.6 installed, spe should work. So I proposed a fix here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spe/+bug/377044

Mark, in case you encounter other wxpython applications with the same problem (conflict with python-wxgtk2.6), file seperate bug reports and subscribe me. I'll propose a patch for it.

@picobird:
"regenerate the kiki.wxg by the python-wxGlade" or change only two lines like in my patch