[Chimera-users] Import error with chimera-1.2509-osx_x11.dmg, May 01, 2008

[Bruce D. Ray]

I have a Mac G4 PPC running OS X 10.3.9 on which
previous versions of chimera have run without
incident.
I installed chimera-1.2509 of May 01, 2008 after
removing the chimera-1.2492 of Feb 11, 2008 I had been
using.  However, when I attempted to run
chimera-1.2509
it did not start and the following error messages were
written to the console.log file accessible by
console.app rather than to the X-terminal:

     Traceback (most recent call last):

       File
"/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/__main__.py",
  line 65, in <module>

         value = chimeraInit.init(sys.argv)

       File
"/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/chimeraInit.py",
line 279, in init

         import chimera

       File
"/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/chimera/__init__.py",
line 15, in <module>

         from _chimera import *

     ImportError: dynamic module does not define init
function (init_chimera)



This appears to be specific to the Mac OS X version
as the Windows version of chimera-1.2509 works.
Obviously, I removed chimera-1.2509 from the Mac and
reinstalled chimera-1.2492 of Feb 11, 2008 which does
work on this Mac.


Sincerely,




-- 
Bruce D. Ray, Ph.D.
Associate Scientist, and Operations Director
NMR Center
IUPUI
Physics Dept.
402 N. Blackford St.
Indianapolis, IN  46202-3273