Bug#501207: destar doesn't start, backtrace shown

[Andreas Juch]

Package: destar
Version: 0.2.2-5
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Destar doesn't start automatically after install, manually calling it
shows the following backtrace. Maybe it's an python-quixote but...

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andreas-core2:/home/andreas# destar 
DeStar 0.2.2, Copyright (C) 2005 by Holger Schurig and contributors.

DeStar comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions;
see the included files GPL-2.txt and COPYRIGHT.txt

Serving application 'page_main' on port 8080
warning: Computing default hostname
info: Medusa (V1.11) started at Sun Oct  5 16:56:22 2008
	Hostname: andreas-core2.netzwerk
	Port:8080

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/destar/python/destar.py", line 139, in <module>
    pub.run()
  File "/usr/share/destar/python/Server.py", line 168, in run
    publisher = self.publishclass(self.approot)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/quixote/publish.py", line 107, in __init__
    self.root_namespace = _get_module(root_namespace)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/quixote/publish.py", line 32, in _get_module
    __import__(name)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/quixote/ptl_import.py", line 127, in find_import_module
    return self.loader.load_module(fullname, stuff)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/quixote/ptl_import.py", line 107, in load_module
    return _load_ptl(name, filename, file)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/quixote/ptl_import.py", line 72, in _load_ptl
    code = compile_template(file, filename, output)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/quixote/ptl_compile.py", line 297, in compile_template
    template.compile()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/compiler/pycodegen.py", line 111, in compile
    tree = self._get_tree()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/quixote/ptl_compile.py", line 268, in _get_tree
    tree = parse(self.source, self.filename)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/quixote/ptl_compile.py", line 223, in parse
    return TemplateTransformer().parsesuite(buf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/compiler/transformer.py", line 129, in parsesuite
    return self.transform(parser.suite(text))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/compiler/transformer.py", line 125, in transform
    return self.compile_node(tree)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/compiler/transformer.py", line 158, in compile_node
    return self.file_input(node[1:])
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/quixote/ptl_compile.py", line 58, in file_input
    io_imp = ast.From(IO_MODULE, [(IO_CLASS, None)])
TypeError: __init__() takes at least 4 arguments (3 given)
andreas-core2:/home/andreas# 
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The same backtrace shows when started from init-script with --daemonize removed from DAEMON_OPTS.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (650, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages destar depends on:
ii  asterisk            1:1.4.21.2~dfsg-1+b1 Open Source Private Branch Exchang
ii  debconf             1.5.22               Debian configuration management sy
ii  python              2.5.2-2              An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-medusa       0.5.4+clean-2        Framework for implementing asynchr
ii  python-pychart      1.39-6               Python library for creating high q
ii  python-pysqlite2    2.4.1-1              Python interface to SQLite 3
ii  python-quixote1     1.2-4+b1             A highly Pythonic Web application 
ii  sqlite3             3.5.9-3              A command line interface for SQLit

Versions of packages destar recommends:
ii  op-panel                     0.27.dfsg-2 switchboard type application for t

destar suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  destar/port: 8080