crashes on open, "ImportError: No module named static"

[Graham Holland]

I just performed a fresh install of Mnemosyne 2.3 from source for Debian Linux. I followed the instructions in the README and installed all the dependencies that were listed for Ubuntu. Mnemosyne now crashes when attempting to open it, Traceback is attached below:

It looks like the culprit is webob. The currently installed version of python-webob package is 1.1.1-1.1

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An unexpected error has occurred.
Please forward the following info to the developers:

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/mnemosyne", line 5, in <module>
    pkg_resources.run_script('Mnemosyne==2.3', 'mnemosyne')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 499, in run_script
    self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1235, in run_script
    execfile(script_filename, namespace, namespace)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Mnemosyne-2.3-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/mnemosyne", line 191, in <module>
    debug_file=options.debug_file)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Mnemosyne-2.3-py2.7.egg/mnemosyne/libmnemosyne/__init__.py", line 172, in initialise
    self.register_components()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Mnemosyne-2.3-py2.7.egg/mnemosyne/libmnemosyne/__init__.py", line 237, in register_components
    exec("from %s import %s" % (module_name, class_name))
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Mnemosyne-2.3-py2.7.egg/mnemosyne/pyqt_ui/qt_web_server.py", line 13, in <module>
    from mnemosyne.web_server.web_server import WebServer
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Mnemosyne-2.3-py2.7.egg/mnemosyne/web_server/web_server.py", line 14, in <module>
    from webob.static import FileApp
 ImportError: No module named static

[Peter Bienstman (peter-bienstman)]

This is not a Mnemosyne issue, but rather the webob package is not properly installed. I suggest you contact the Debian developers.

[Pat Blair (patdaburu)]

I had the same problem on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. After reading this post, I uninstalled the python-webob package and downloaded/installed WebOb 1.4 from http://webob.org/ . That seems to have resolved it.

[Graham Holland (graham-holland)]

Thanks for the info. In case anyone else finds the same problem, following
the steps Pat outlined fixed things for me.

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Pat Blair <email address hidden> wrote:

> I had the same problem on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. After reading this post, I
> uninstalled the python-webob package and downloaded/installed WebOb 1.4
> from http://webob.org/ . That seems to have resolved it.
>
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> Title:
> crashes on open, "ImportError: No module named static"
>
> Status in The Mnemosyne Project:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> I just performed a fresh install of Mnemosyne 2.3 from source for
> Debian Linux. I followed the instructions in the README and installed
> all the dependencies that were listed for Ubuntu. Mnemosyne now
> crashes when attempting to open it, Traceback is attached below:
>
> It looks like the culprit is webob. The currently installed version of
> python-webob package is 1.1.1-1.1
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> An unexpected error has occurred.
> Please forward the following info to the developers:
>
> Traceback (innermost last):
> File "/usr/local/bin/mnemosyne", line 5, in <module>
> pkg_resources.run_script('Mnemosyne==2.3', 'mnemosyne')
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 499, in
> run_script
> self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1235,
> in run_script
> execfile(script_filename, namespace, namespace)
> File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Mnemosyne-2.3-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/mnemosyne",
> line 191, in <module>
> debug_file=options.debug_file)
> File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Mnemosyne-2.3-py2.7.egg/mnemosyne/libmnemosyne/__init__.py",
> line 172, in initialise
> self.register_components()
> File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Mnemosyne-2.3-py2.7.egg/mnemosyne/libmnemosyne/__init__.py",
> line 237, in register_components
> exec("from %s import %s" % (module_name, class_name))
> File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Mnemosyne-2.3-py2.7.egg/mnemosyne/pyqt_ui/qt_web_server.py",
> line 13, in <module>
> from mnemosyne.web_server.web_server import WebServer
> File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Mnemosyne-2.3-py2.7.egg/mnemosyne/web_server/web_server.py",
> line 14, in <module>
> from webob.static import FileApp
> ImportError: No module named static
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