Bug 301205 – sci-chemistry/pymol-1.2.x fails to run -- PYMOL_PATH not expanded

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description urcindalo 2010-01-16 16:45:39 UTC]

I use a mainly stable AMD64 box. Whenever I launch pymol (stable 1.2.1 or ~amd64 1.2.2) I get this error:

===
$ pymol
/usr/bin/python2.6: can't open file '/__init__.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
===

However, pymol-1.2.x emerges finely. What surprises me is that pymol-1.2.1 is stable for amd64, as well as python-2.6.4.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Patrick Lauer 2010-01-17 22:15:37 UTC]

can't open file '/__init__.py': [Errno 2] No such file or
directory

That is quite interesting ... of course there is no such file!
So the question is - why does that path not get expanded properly?
And how did you manage to trigger this behaviour?

[Comment 2 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2010-01-18 07:20:14 UTC]

# cat /usr/bin/pymol 
#!/bin/sh
python -O ${PYMOL_PATH}/__init__.py $*

and PYMOL_PATH is defined in

/etc/env.d/20pymol.

[Comment 3 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2010-01-18 07:21:07 UTC]

Did you run

source /etc/profile

in the shell you wanted to start pymol?

[Comment 4 urcindalo 2010-01-18 11:31:47 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Did you run
> 
> source /etc/profile
> 
> in the shell you wanted to start pymol?
> 

No, I didn't. I have just tried pymol after restarting my laptop (because I took it somewhere else) and pymol now starts beautifully.

Maybe a warning after emerging it is necessary? I would have never guessed I needed to source my /etc/profile to make it work

Anyway, thanks very much for your help and efforts.