Cannot setup trac env, missing global name 'util'

[tbarstow@…]

After completing trac install (0.8.2 or 0.8-current, tried both), I try to setup an environment with:

sudo trac-admin /trac/master initenv

This errs with the following:

… (can provide output if you want it, looks uninteresting) … /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/share/trac/wiki-default/WikiStart ⇒ WikiStart
Indexing repository
Failed to initialize database. global name 'util' is not defined

I have received this error with 0.8-current and with 0.8.2. I am using subversion 1.2, python 2.4.

Any help greatly appreciated, thanks

[Christopher Lenz]

Not sure what's happening here. Can you please try applying the patch I'll attach in a second?

[Christopher Lenz]

Please apply this and rerun trac-admin

[tbarstow@…]

After applying patch:

% sudo trac-admin /trac/master initenv
…
… (configuration)
…
/trac/master Repository access error: ("Can't open file '/trac/master/format': No such file or directory", 2)

I get this error whether I create the /trac/master directory before running trac-admin or not. /trac directory always exists.

Thanks

[tbarstow]

I should note that the initenv process got further along before applying the patch (it used to have a lot of "Indexing repository" lines before failing, but now it fails immediately after configuration, with the error above)

[tbarstow]

I fixed a localization problem that I didn't notice, and now trac-admin behaves more similarly to before. Here is the new output, probably more what you were expecting:

% sudo trac-admin /trac/master initenv
…
… (config)
…
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/share/trac/wiki-default/WikiStart ⇒ WikiStart
Indexing repository
Failed to initialize database. global name 'util' is not defined
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/opt/local/bin/trac-admin", line 524, in do_initenv

sync.sync(cnx, rep, fs_ptr, pool)

File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/sync.py", line 30, in sync

if util.SVN_VER_MAJOR < 1:

NameError: global name 'util' is not defined

[tbarstow]

The localization problem ended up leading me to the answer. One thing I noticed that is annoying is that "python ./setup.py install" does not overwrite any files, so I had to manually delete the installed files myself to actually make a difference when reinstalling.

In any case, thanks for trac, and thanks for your help, cmlenz.

I am taking the liberty of resolving this ticket.

I should note however that I did apply patches from other related bugs, so folks with a similar problem may want to start there.