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

Randy Heiland heiland at indiana.edu
Sat May 31 12:34:44 PDT 2008


I just successfully installed/ran 1.2524 on my Intel Mac running OSX  
10.4.11  The only minor hiccup I had were the following warnings spit  
out when I executed chimera and a lengthier-than-usual first-time  
hesitation before the gui appeared (presumably due to these fonts -  
which by the way look *much* nicer than those in the production  
release):

~/dev/Chimera-1.2524.app/Contents/MacOS$ ./chimera
Fontconfig warning: no <cachedir> elements found. Check configuration.
Fontconfig warning: adding <cachedir>//var/cache/fontconfig</cachedir>
Fontconfig warning: adding <cachedir>~/.fontconfig</cachedir>

It just dawned on me that maybe you have a powerpc machine (uname - 
a)?  I'm guessing that the Chimera developers need to recompile that  
snapshot with some different env flags.  There's some info on google  
about the error msg you're seeing.  I just went through this slightly  
painful exercise for a guy running osx 10.3.x/ppc for some Python  
eggs we distribute as extensions to Chimera.

I also noticed this snapshot is now using Python 2.5, fwiw.

-Randy


On May 31, 2008, at 2:24 PM, Bruce D. Ray wrote:

>
> --- Randy Heiland <heiland at indiana.edu> wrote:
>
>> I was going to try to reproduce your problem, but it
>> looks like
>> they've already updated that snapshot since there is
>> no 1.2509 now:
>>
>> http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/download.html
>>
>> You might try the latest, 1.2524, snapshot if you
>> really need
>> something newer than the production release.
>
> Well, I just tried that version and I get the exact
> same error.
>
>
> Error messages to console log are:
>
>      Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>        File
> "/Volumes/ChimeraInstaller/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/ 
> __main__.py",
> line 65, in <module>
>
>          value = chimeraInit.init(sys.argv)
>
>   File
> "/Volumes/ChimeraInstaller/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/ 
> chimeraInit.py",
> line 279, in init
>
>               import chimera
>
>        File
> "/Volumes/ChimeraInstaller/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)
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Bruce D. Ray, Ph.D.
> Associate Scientist, and Operations Director
> NMR Center
> IUPUI
> Physics Dept.
> 402 N. Blackford St.
> Indianapolis, IN  46202-3273
>
>
>




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