Ubuntu
istanbul package

Import Error: No module named ltihooks

Bug #68321 reported by kenc on 2006-10-26

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Istanbul	Unknown	Critical	gnome-bugs #366740
	istanbul (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

I'm on Edgy, and I get this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/istanbul", line 30, in ?
    from istanbul.main import main
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/istanbul/main/main.py", line 25, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py", line 21, in ?

ImportError: No module named ltihooks

When I run istanbul. Note, I was able to compile it from official source ...

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Peter Lundqvist (peterl) wrote on 2006-11-04:

I haven't had time to look into it, but this seems to hold a clue:

http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-python/ltihooks.py?view=log

Revision 1.3
Fri Sep 29 09:53:11 2006 UTC (5 weeks, 1 day ago) by bilboed
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: HEAD
Changes since 1.2: +0 -0 lines
FILE REMOVED

* ltihooks.py:
Removed
* testsuite/common.py:
ltihooks is dead, long live gstltihooks. This should complete thomas'
fix of #357310.

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Erik Bågfors (zindar) wrote on 2006-11-15:

For me in edgy, this is caused by an old installation of istanbul, where the .pyc and .pyo files was not removed correctly. The .py files was gone...

I did the following
sudo apt-get remove --purge istanbul

found that I still had files under /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/istanbul/ with extensions .pyc and .pyo.
sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/istanbul/

sudo apt-get install istanbul

Now it works... (well, at least starts, haven't tried it yet)

/Erik

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Andrew Jorgensen (ajorg) wrote on 2007-01-10:

Bug exists, analysis is correct, workaround works for me.

Changed in istanbul:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

Florian Boucault (fboucault) on 2007-02-22

Changed in istanbul:
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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sog (sogrady) wrote on 2007-02-22:

same error, same fix.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2007-02-23

Changed in istanbul:
status:	Unknown → Rejected

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Scott Severance (scott.severance) wrote on 2007-03-16:

Why is this bug rejected? It's very much a legitimate bug in the packaging system. Purging the package, then removing /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/istanbul fixes it. This directory doesn't get recreated on reinstall, so apparently it's left over from some previous version, and the packaging scripts failed to properly clean up during some upgrade.

Note that I initially installed Istanbul while running Dapper. Now, I'm running Edgy.

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pablodiazgutierrez (pablo-ics) wrote on 2007-04-23:

I believe only the upstream bug report has been rejected. This means that the problem is not related to the software itself, but only with the packaging. Therefore, Istanbul developers need not be bothered with it.

BTW, the workaround seems to work for me too.

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote on 2008-09-17:

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 alpha?

Changed in istanbul:
status:	Confirmed → Incomplete

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Javier Jardón (jjardon) wrote on 2008-12-22:

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!