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ImportError: cannot import name daemonize

Asked by Ben Hsu

I am trying to install Graphite on Cent 6. When I try to start carbon, I get an ImportError on the word "daemonize"

Here are the steps I've taken

# set up virtualenv
    1 virtualenv /opt/graphite
    2 source /opt/graphite/bin/activate

# gcc is needed to install some binary packages
    4 yum install gcc

# pip install as per instructions
    5 pip install whisper carbon graphite-web

#try to start
   11 /opt/graphite/bin/carbon-cache.py start

and I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/graphite/bin/carbon-cache.py", line 28, in <module>
    from carbon.util import run_twistd_plugin
  File "/opt/graphite/lib/carbon/util.py", line 21, in <module>
    from twisted.scripts._twistd_unix import daemonize
ImportError: cannot import name daemonize

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Kevin Williams (kevwil) said : 		#1

We are having the same issue today. We are using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server in EC2.

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Jean-Paul Calderone (exarkun) said : 		#2

See <https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/6827#comment:3>.

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Ben Hsu (benhsu) said : 		#3

the Twisted forum says they wont fix this. Is there a patch I can apply to Carbon?

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Best Manuel Guerrero (manolo-r) said : 		#4

Try this. In /opt/graphite/lib/carbon/util.py :

------------Original -----------------------------------
from time import sleep, time
from twisted.python.util import initgroups
from twisted.scripts.twistd import runApp
from twisted.scripts._twistd_unix import daemonize

daemonize = daemonize # Backwards compatibility
---------------------------------------------------------
Change to:
------------Changed -----------------------------------
from time import sleep, time
from twisted.python.util import initgroups
from twisted.scripts.twistd import runApp
from twisted.scripts._twistd_unix import daemonize

# daemonize = daemonize # Backwards compatibility
---------------------------------------------------------

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Kevin Williams (kevwil) said : 		#5

The breaking change in Twisted came in 13.2.0 released on 11/8. I tried going back to Twisted 13.1.0 and Carbon works OK that way.

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Ben Hsu (benhsu) said : 		#6

Thanks Manuel Guerrero, that solved my question.

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Swapnil (swapsjd) said : 		#7

Hi, How do I install Twisted 13.1.0 on ubuntu 12.04 ?