Re: Debugging AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'kmod'

[Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>]

On 10/30/2014 09:37 AM, Christophe Vu-Brugier wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:24:37 -0700, Andy Grover wrote :
>> On 10/30/2014 08:09 AM, Christophe Vu-Brugier wrote:
>>> Hi Andy,
>>>
>>> I am working on better integrating targetcli in Buildroot. Buildroot
>>> is an easy to configure build system that uses cross compilation to
>>> generate tiny root file systems for embedded platforms.
>>>
>>> Buildroot supports systemd so I built a root file system with
>>> targetcli and systemd. When systemd is selected as the init system in
>>> Buildroot, the python-kmod module is also built by Buildroot (because
>>> kmod is a dependency of systemd). And since python-kmod is present,
>>> targetcli tries to use it. But it fails with the following error:
>>>
>>>     # targetcli
>>>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>       File "/usr/bin/targetcli", line 100, in <module>
>>>         main()
>>>       File "/usr/bin/targetcli", line 63, in main
>>>         root_node = UIRoot(shell, as_root=is_root)
>>>       File "home/cvubrugier/repos/buildroot/output/x86-targetcli-systemd/target/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/targetcli/ui_root.py", line 44, in __init__
>>>       File "home/cvubrugier/repos/buildroot/output/x86-targetcli-systemd/target/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/rtslib/root.py", line 66, in __init__
>>>       File "home/cvubrugier/repos/buildroot/output/x86-targetcli-systemd/target/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/rtslib/utils.py", line 364, in modprobe
>>>     AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Kmod'
>>>
>>> Trying to use python-kmod by hand also fails on the system.
>>>
>>>     Python 3.4.1 (default, Oct 29 2014, 13:37:35)
>>>     [GCC 4.9.1] on linux
>>>     Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>     >>> import kmod
>>>     >>> km = kmod.kmod()
>>>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>       File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>>     AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'kmod'
>>>
>>> Maybe python-kmod is not properly built. Do you have some advises of
>>> what I should look at to debug this issue.
>>
>> Can you supply the kmod/python-kmod version information?
>
> This is the latest version of kmod:
>
>    # kmod --version
>    kmod version 18

(CCing kmod dev list too)

Starting in kmod v17 the Python library was merged into the main kmod 
repo, and the version indicates that you are using the Python wrapper 
built from that (as opposed to the now-defunct separate project called 
python-kmod, whose versions never exceeded 0.9.)

Lucas De Marchi did the build integration because my autotools knowledge 
was not sufficient -- I suspect building kmod with --enable-python only 
enables Python 2. I'd need to know more about what distro you're on and 
look at the packaging scripts, but I think upstream support for building 
the library for Python 3 is needed (this might be extremely simple but 
it still probably requires a separate --enable-python3 configure 
option). Did the packager think they could just take the Py2 binaries 
and they'd work for Python 3???

So I'd open an issue with the kmod packager for whatever distro because 
something is broken, and maybe the CC'd upstream developers might also 
be able to help us have explicit support for building for Python 3?

Thanks -- Regards -- Andy