env creation fails

Bug #685557 reported by Panos Laganakos
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Bug Description

virtualenv version: 1.5.1
python version: 2.6.5
OS: ubuntu-server

executing:
    virtualenv test

retuns this output:
New python executable in test/bin/python
Installing setuptools.......................done.
  Complete output from command /home/phaethon/test/bin/python /home/phaethon/test/bin/easy_install /home/phaethon/lib/python/virt...ar.gz:
  Processing pip-0.8.1.tar.gz
Running pip-0.8.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-CjEzjq/pip-0.8.1/egg-dist-tmp-fC6emG
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/phaethon/test/bin/easy_install", line 8, in <module>
    load_entry_point('setuptools==0.6c11', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')()
  File "/home/phaethon/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1712, in main
  File "/home/phaethon/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1700, in with_ei_usage
  File "/home/phaethon/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1716, in <lambda>
  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 "/home/phaethon/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 211, in run
  File "/home/phaethon/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 427, in easy_install
  File "/home/phaethon/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 476, in install_item
  File "/home/phaethon/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 655, in install_eggs
  File "/home/phaethon/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 930, in build_and_install
  File "/home/phaethon/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 919, in run_setup
  File "/home/phaethon/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 52, in run_setup
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__getstate__'
----------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/phaethon/bin/virtualenv", line 8, in <module>
    load_entry_point('virtualenv==1.5.1', 'console_scripts', 'virtualenv')()
  File "/home/phaethon/lib/python/virtualenv.py", line 558, in main
    prompt=options.prompt)
  File "/home/phaethon/lib/python/virtualenv.py", line 656, in create_environment
    install_pip(py_executable)
  File "/home/phaethon/lib/python/virtualenv.py", line 415, in install_pip
    filter_stdout=_filter_setup)
  File "/home/phaethon/lib/python/virtualenv.py", line 624, in call_subprocess
    % (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))
OSError: Command /home/phaethon/test/bin/python /home/phaethon/test/bin/easy_install /home/phaethon/lib/python/virt...ar.gz failed with error code 1

virtualenv is installed in my home dir using the install-option="--home=~"

Panos Laganakos (panosl)
description: updated
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Panos Laganakos (panosl) wrote :

I found out what was causing this.

There was some old versions of setuptools on my ~/.local/ that seemed to interfere.

I only show a warning when using --distribute flag, so I just removed those and it worked. Go distrubute!

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Carl Meyer (carljm) wrote :

Not migrating this to new tracker at https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues

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