Import error with chimera-1.2509-osx_x11.dmg, May 01, 2008
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
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. -Randy On May 31, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Bruce D. Ray wrote:
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
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--- Randy Heiland <heiland@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
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@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
Hello, As you have found, the most recent versions of Chimera do not support Mac OSX 10.3. We had a "news" item on the home page last fall, which has since been displaced by newer messages, but here is the text: November 16, 2007 Chimera production release v1.2470 is available. This is the last release to officially support Mac OS 10.3. There have been several changes since the previous production release (v1.2422, June 2007). Platform support depends on the availability of such machines to our group, and "older" systems may be dropped as most users migrate to newer OS versions. It is always a balancing act as to where time/ effort should be spent. Sorry about that, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng@cgl.ucsf.edu UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html On May 31, 2008, at 9:54 AM, Randy Heiland 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.
-Randy
On May 31, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Bruce D. Ray wrote:
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
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