AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'parseRetentionDef'

This error means you're using an old whisper with a newer carbon.

Use the requirements.txt file in a trunk checkout to setup a dev environment, or run `python setup.py --force` for all three setup.py files to install.

Thanks for the reply. Two questions:
1) If I use the requirements.txt file, what do I do to it? Not sure what you want me to do in that.

2) If I use setup.py, which one? I see 3 of them:
graphite/carbon/setup.py
graphite/whisper/setup.py
graphite/setup.py

I tried doing a 'python setup.py --force' on all 3 of the setup.py files:

All 3 of them (in /carbon, /whisper, and /) produced the same error:

jchang@util:~/graphite/graphite/whisper$ python ./setup.py --force
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
   or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
   or: setup.py --help-commands
   or: setup.py cmd --help

Try

python ./setup.py install --force

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>I tried doing a 'python setup.py --force' on all 3 of the setup.py
>files:
>
>All 3 of them (in /carbon, /whisper, and /) produced the same error:
>
>jchang@util:~/graphite/graphite/whisper$ python ./setup.py --force
>usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
> or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
> or: setup.py --help-commands
> or: setup.py cmd --help
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Sorry, you need to pass install to setup.py. Run all 3 of them, or follow the instructions at the top of requirements.txt

Hmm. Thanks for all the help, unfortunately I still get the same error.

Running "python ./setup.py install --force" in the 3 dirs seemed to work; no apparent errors. (Was there an order I was supposed to do them in?) However, I still get the same error.

As for requirements.txt, I am running the commands one by one. WHen I do this one:
  brew install cairo && brew link cairo
I get this error:
No command 'brew' found, did you mean:
 Command 'brec' from package 'bplay' (universe)
 Command 'qbrew' from package 'qbrew' (universe)
brew: command not found

It does not seem to be in my path, and I can't find it anywhere on my system. Where does it come from?

Thanks for all your help,
John

Last thing to try is check out an old revision from bzr, try rev 415... I think trunk may not be working right now.

JOhn Chang <email address hidden> wrote:

>Question #169644 on Graphite changed:
>https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/169644
>
> Status: Answered => Open
>
>JOhn Chang is still having a problem:
>Hmm. Thanks for all the help, unfortunately I still get the same error.
>
>Running "python ./setup.py install --force" in the 3 dirs seemed to
>work; no apparent errors. (Was there an order I was supposed to do them
>in?) However, I still get the same error.
>
>As for requirements.txt, I am running the commands one by one. WHen I do this one:
> brew install cairo && brew link cairo
>I get this error:
>No command 'brew' found, did you mean:
> Command 'brec' from package 'bplay' (universe)
> Command 'qbrew' from package 'qbrew' (universe)
>brew: command not found
>
>It does not seem to be in my path, and I can't find it anywhere on my
>system. Where does it come from?
>
>Thanks for all your help,
>John
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To my knowledge trunk works fine right now. Aman's suggestion earlier about having an old whisper library installed is definitely the problem because the parseRetentionDef method got moved from carbon's storage module to whisper a month or two ago, which has caused several users to stumble on this very problem.

John, can you confirm what version of whisper you're installing? I'd recommend using the latest trunk. If you're using the 0.9.8 release of whisper along with carbon from trunk then you'd definitely run into this issue.

I *think* I am on trunk. As the instructions said, I just did this to get the source:
bzr branch lp:graphite

I'm guessing that just pulls trunk, but it did not create a 'trunk' dir. The instructions say to cd to 'trunk' after pulling the source, but there is no such directory created.

I am reading up on bazaar and can't figure out how to get it to tell me what trunk or branch I am on. In case it is informative, doing a 'bzr log' produces this (I see revision numbers, but to trunk or branch indication):

revno: 547
committer: Sidnei da Silva <email address hidden>
branch nick: graphite
timestamp: Mon 2011-08-29 10:58:32 -0300
message:
  - Add missing __init__.py
------------------------------------------------------------
revno: 546
committer: Chris Davis <email address hidden>
branch nick: graphite
timestamp: Sun 2011-08-28 22:49:17 -0700
message:
  ignore exception-of-death when carbon-cache is unavailable
------------------------------------------------------------
revno: 545
committer: Chris Davis <email address hidden>
branch nick: graphite
timestamp: Wed 2011-08-24 22:27:35 -0700
message:
  whoops, merging in some bits I missed from the previous lp:~lucio.torre/graphite/add-events merge
------------------------------------------------------------
revno: 544
committer: Brian Hatfield <email address hidden>
branch nick: graphite
timestamp: Wed 2011-08-24 19:20:22 -0400
message:
  More polish of docs

(and so on....)

-----------------------------From the instructions:---------------------------------------
    Please Use Trunk
    There's a few subtle bugs in 0.9.7c that are causing increased message volume on the mailing list.
    Please checkout trunk first, rather than 0.9.7c.

        bzr branch lp:graphite
        cd trunk (--I could not do this; it did not create a trunk dir--)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

thanks

'bzr info' produces this. Does 'branch root' mean the same as 'trunk' in this case?

jchang@util:~/graphite/graphite$ bzr info
Standalone tree (format: pack-0.92)
Location:
  branch root: .

Related branches:
  parent branch: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~graphite-dev/graphite/main/

I figured it out. I did have the correct version pulled down. However, you were right about the whisper version; an older version of whisper was already in /usr/lib/python (residual from before I started this project). I got rid of it and that got me past the problem.

Thanks