RuntimeError: Unable to find an implementation for the 'linux2' ('posix') platform

[Justin]

Binary package hint: fretsonfire

It just doesn't open when ran. I'm using Ubuntu Hardy, with all the updates.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 24 20:06:52 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/games/fretsonfire/game/FretsOnFire.py
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
NonfreeKernelModules: vmnet vmblock vmmon nvidia
Package: fretsonfire-game 1.2.451.dfsg-2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python ./FretsOnFire.py
ProcCwd: /usr/share/games/fretsonfire/game
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['./FretsOnFire.py']
SourcePackage: fretsonfire
Title: FretsOnFire.py crashed with RuntimeError in _load()
Uname: Linux justin-desktop 2.6.24-8-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 14 20:40:45 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin plugdev video

[atreju (atreju-tauschinsky)]

I see this bug too, trying to run keyjnote. Command line output is

Welcome to KeyJnote version 0.10.2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/keyjnote", line 160, in <module>
    from OpenGL.GL import *
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/OpenGL/GL/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
    from OpenGL.raw.GL import *
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/OpenGL/raw/GL/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from OpenGL.raw.GL.constants import *
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/OpenGL/raw/GL/constants.py", line 7, in <module>
    from OpenGL import platform, arrays
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/OpenGL/platform/__init__.py", line 57, in <module>
    _load()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/OpenGL/platform/__init__.py", line 53, in _load
    sys.platform, os.name,
RuntimeError: Unable to find an implementation for the 'linux2' ('posix') platform

[der_acid (acidburn-gaming-31337)]

im not a programmer but maybe a hint:

ralf@acid-nb:~$ python
Python 2.5.2a0 (r251:54863, Jan 3 2008, 17:52:29)
[GCC 4.2.3 20071223 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.2.2-4ubuntu3)] on linux2

also states linux2 as platform....

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

I've fixed it locally already (in pyopengl), but need to investigate if this breaks other things.

The problem appears to be that the symlinks in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyOpenGL-3.0.0b1-py2.5.egg-info are incorrect and therefore the __init__ in the OpenGL/platform package does know nothing about the OpenGL.platform.implementation to use.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pyopengl - 3.0.0~b1-0ubuntu2

---------------
pyopengl (3.0.0~b1-0ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/rules:
    - Removed "mv" of .egg-info directory in
      common-binary-post-install-indep, which caused broken symlinks in
      /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyOpenGL-3.0.0b1-py2.5.egg-info/.
      According to snapshot.debian.org the first package introducing this had
      already the "Where does this come from" comment in it (3.0.0~a6-1).
      The links where broken in 3.0.0~a6, too, but it did not depend on the
      OpenGL.platform.implementation feature. (LP: #195270)
    - clean target:
      - remove workaround for cdbs bug, which is fixed already
      - Do not remove setup.cfg from PyOpenGL.egg-info/SOURCES.txt.
        I could not find a reference why it was added and other packages
        do not remove it, too.
  * debian/control:
    - Standards-Version 3.7.3
    - Moved Homepage from Description to control field
  * Modify Maintainer value to match the DebianMaintainerField
    specification.

 -- Daniel Hahler <email address hidden> Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:43:32 +0100