Comment 2 for bug 744814

I have a similar error when trying install nova. I am using ubuntu 10.04.

root@jaku:~/openstack/nova-2011.2# python setup.py install
ERROR: Python module utils not found
ERROR: Python module utils not found
ERROR: Python module boto_v6.ec2.instance not found
ERROR: Python module XenAPIPlugin not found
ERROR: Python module pluginlib_nova not found
WARNING: syntax errors in plugins/xenserver/networking/etc/xensource/scripts/vif_rules.py : invalid syntax (line 55)
ERROR: Python module XenAPIPlugin not found
ERROR: Python module pluginlib_nova not found
ERROR: Python module XenAPIPlugin not found
ERROR: Python module pluginlib_nova not found
ERROR: Python module xenstore not found
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/DistUtilsExtra/auto.py:316: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
  path = __import__(module).__file__
ERROR: Python module XenAPIPlugin not found
ERROR: Python module pluginlib_nova not found
ERROR: Python module XenAPIPlugin not found
ERROR: Python module pluginlib_nova not found
ERROR: Python module XenAPI not found
running install
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 131, in <module>
    'tools/nova-debug'])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/DistUtilsExtra/auto.py", line 96, in setup
    distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 975, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 995, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/DistUtilsExtra/auto.py", line 673, in run
    distutils.dir_util.copy_tree('etc', os.path.join(self.root, 'etc'),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/posixpath.py", line 67, in join
    elif path == '' or path.endswith('/'):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'endswith'