Error running carddav server in Linux

[dave@…]

When trying to launch the carddav server on a Debian Etch machine with ./run, I get the error:

ImportError: No module named open directory

I've tried commenting out all opendirectory-related resources in carddavd-dev.plist, but still get the error. I understand that there is no opendirectory on Linux, but there doesn't seem to be a way of keeping the server from trying to load that module.

Full traceback below.

exec python /home/dave/Twisted/bin/twistd  -n carddav -f /home/dave/ContactsServer/conf/carddavd-dev.plist -o ProcessType=Combined 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/dave/Twisted/bin/twistd", line 21, in <module>
    run()
  File "/home/dave/Twisted/twisted/scripts/twistd.py", line 27, in run
    app.run(runApp, ServerOptions)
  File "/home/dave/Twisted/twisted/application/app.py", line 374, in run
    config.parseOptions()
  File "/home/dave/Twisted/twisted/application/app.py", line 354, in parseOptions
    usage.Options.parseOptions(self, options)
  File "/home/dave/Twisted/twisted/python/usage.py", line 184, in parseOptions
    for (cmd, short, parser, doc) in self.subCommands:
  File "/home/dave/Twisted/twisted/application/app.py", line 365, in subCommands
    self.loadedPlugins[plug.tapname] = plug
  File "/home/dave/ContactsServer/twisted/plugins/carddav.py", line 13, in getProperty
    return getattr(reflect.namedClass(self.serviceMakerClass), propname)
  File "/home/dave/Twisted/twisted/python/reflect.py", line 347, in namedObject
    module = namedModule(string.join(classSplit[:-1], '.'))
  File "/home/dave/Twisted/twisted/python/reflect.py", line 335, in namedModule
    topLevel = __import__(name)
  File "/home/dave/ContactsServer/addressbookserver/tap/carddav.py", line 84, in <module>
    from twistedcaldav.static import AddressBookHomeProvisioningFile, DirectoryBackedAddressBookFile
  File "/home/dave/ContactsServer/twistedcaldav/static.py", line 78, in <module>
    from twistedcaldav.directory.addressbook import uidsResourceName as uidsResourceNameAddressBook
  File "/home/dave/ContactsServer/twistedcaldav/directory/addressbook.py", line 45, in <module>
    from twistedcaldav.report_addressbook_findshared import getReadWriteSharedAddressBookGroups, getReadOnlySharedAddressBookGroups, getWritersGroupForSharedAddressBookGroup
  File "/home/dave/ContactsServer/twistedcaldav/report_addressbook_findshared.py", line 30, in <module>
    import opendirectory
ImportError: No module named open directory

[dennis@…]

Cc Me!

[dennis@…]

By enabling the build of PyOpenDirectory on linux, I was enable to get the server up.

[guy@…]

Replying to dennis@…:

By enabling the build of PyOpenDirectory on linux, I was enable to get the server up.

Please can you provide some simple steps for this?

[dennis@…]

By editing the run script and comment out the check on darwin where PyOpenDirectory is fetched and build.

This makes the server start, but I haven't been able to connect to it using a Address Book client. But this could be a configuration error on my side.

[guy@…]

which revision did you have checked out? I'm still not getting this work complete. I've checked out the latest:

​http://svn.calendarserver.org/repository/calendarserver/ContactsServer Revision: 5050

[dennis@…]

I checked out trunk, which seems to be revision 4952. But I had no problem doing it with revision 5050 either.

My changes in run is:

[ContactServer]$ svn diff run 
Index: run
===================================================================
--- run	(revision 5050)
+++ run	(working copy)
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 ##
 
 set -e
-set -u
+#set -u
 
 wd="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)";
 
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@
 # PyOpenDirectory
 #
 
-if [ "$(uname -s)" == "Darwin" ]; then
+#if [ "$(uname -s)" == "Darwin" ]; then
 #  if ! py_have_module opendirectory; then
     opendirectory="${top}/PyOpenDirectory";
 
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@
 
     export PYTHONPATH="${PYTHONPATH}:${opendirectory}/build/${py_platform_libdir}";
 #  fi;
-fi;
+#fi;
 
 #
 # xattr

[dennis@…]

Trying again with code block:

[dennis@blackbox3 ContactServer]$ svn diff run 
Index: run
===================================================================
--- run	(revision 5050)
+++ run	(working copy)
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 ##
 
 set -e
-set -u
+#set -u
 
 wd="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)";
 
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@
 # PyOpenDirectory
 #
 
-if [ "$(uname -s)" == "Darwin" ]; then
+#if [ "$(uname -s)" == "Darwin" ]; then
 #  if ! py_have_module opendirectory; then
     opendirectory="${top}/PyOpenDirectory";
 
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@
 
     export PYTHONPATH="${PYTHONPATH}:${opendirectory}/build/${py_platform_libdir}";
 #  fi;
-fi;
+#fi;
 
 #
 # xattr

[guy@…]

ok well it seems to compile now... however when it starts the server:

Starting server...
exec python /root/Twisted/bin/twistd  -n carddav -f /root/ContactServer2/conf/carddavd-dev.plist -o ProcessType=Combined 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/root/Twisted/bin/twistd", line 21, in <module>
    run()
  File "/root/Twisted/twisted/scripts/twistd.py", line 27, in run
    app.run(runApp, ServerOptions)
  File "/root/Twisted/twisted/application/app.py", line 374, in run
    config.parseOptions()
  File "/root/Twisted/twisted/application/app.py", line 354, in parseOptions
    usage.Options.parseOptions(self, options)
  File "/root/Twisted/twisted/python/usage.py", line 184, in parseOptions
    for (cmd, short, parser, doc) in self.subCommands:
  File "/root/Twisted/twisted/application/app.py", line 365, in subCommands
    self.loadedPlugins[plug.tapname] = plug
  File "/root/ContactServer2/twisted/plugins/carddav.py", line 13, in getProperty
    return getattr(reflect.namedClass(self.serviceMakerClass), propname)
  File "/root/Twisted/twisted/python/reflect.py", line 347, in namedObject
    module = namedModule(string.join(classSplit[:-1], '.'))
  File "/root/Twisted/twisted/python/reflect.py", line 335, in namedModule
    topLevel = __import__(name)
  File "/root/ContactServer2/addressbookserver/tap/carddav.py", line 71, in <module>
    from twistedcaldav.resource import CalDAVResource
  File "/root/ContactServer2/twistedcaldav/resource.py", line 42, in <module>
    from twisted.web2.dav.idav import IDAVPrincipalCollectionResource
ImportError: cannot import name IDAVPrincipalCollectionResource

[rene@…]

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[rene@…]

I can confirm the error, and also the workaround.

[alexis@…]

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[wsanchez@…]

It should no longer be necessary to try to force build PyOpenDirectory. Try again with trunk.

[kurt.leubner@…]

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[kurt.leubner@…]

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