Re: Nmap 4.85BETA4 released!

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 07:20:45PM -0500, Vijay Sankar wrote:
> Fyodor wrote:
> > Hi All.  I'm happy to releae 4.85BETA4.  It has been nearly a month
> > and a half since BETA3, so this version offers many great changes!
> > New NSE scripts, tons of Ncat improvements, an enhanced OS detection
> > DB, and dozens of other bug fixes, features, and performance
> > enhancements!
> >
> > I've posted the goods on the Nmap download page at
> > http://nmap.org/download.html.  This includes the tarball as well as
> > Linux, Windows, and Mac binaries, and signatures.
> >
> > Please test it out and report any problems to nmap-dev as soon as you
> > can, since I'm leaving for CanSecWest on Tuesday morning (I'll be
> > speaking there Friday).  So Monday may be my last chance to do a
> > rebuild if you discover any serious problems.
>
> nmap-4.85BETA4 installed successfully on OpenBSD 4.4 -stable.
>
> Also, when I try to run zenmap, I get:
>
> vijay CPU@39.0C $ zenmap
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/local/bin/zenmap", line 30, in <module>
>    from zenmapCore.UmitLogging import log
>  File  
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/zenmapCore/UmitLogging.py", line  
> 25, in <module>
>    from zenmapCore.UmitOptionParser import option_parser
>  File  
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/zenmapCore/UmitOptionParser.py",  
> line 26, in <module>
>    import zenmapCore.I18N
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/zenmapCore/I18N.py", line  
> 26, in <module>
>    from zenmapCore.Paths import Path
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/zenmapCore/Paths.py", line 
> 30, in <module>
>    from zenmapCore.UmitLogging import log
> ImportError: cannot import name log
> vijay CPU@38.0C $
>
> I have both python-2.4.4p7 and python-2.5.2p4 installed (these are  
> OpenBSD packages) and have linked python to python-2.5

Something must have gone wrong with the installation.
zenmapCore/Paths.py doesn't import zenmapCore.UmitLogging at the top
anymore, precisely because of this circular dependency. For some reason,
maybe a clock skew, the new Paths.py wasn't installed with the other
files.

Try entering the zenmap directory and running "sudo python setup.py
install --force". That will force installation of all files. I have been
suspicious of distutils's file replacement strategy for a while so I
added the --force option to the main Makefile.in. The downside of that
is a lot more output with "make install".

David Fifield

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