ImportError: cannot import name generic

[fuzzball5000]

Hello

Installing Graphite on RHEL7 using the EPEL 7.11 graphite-web package.

Installing Django 1.7 into /usr/share/graphite/webapp I'm able to perform django-admin syncdb as below:

PYTHONPATH=/usr/share/graphite/webapp django-admin syncdb --settings=graphite.settings

But, at run time, the application is logging the below to graphite-web-error.log:

[Thu Jan 24 23:44:43.318678 2019] [:error] [pid 16932] [client 10.32.32.121:64234]     application = get_wsgi_application()
[Thu Jan 24 23:44:43.318699 2019] [:error] [pid 16932] [client 10.32.32.121:64234]   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/wsgi.py", line 13, in get_wsgi_application
[Thu Jan 24 23:44:43.318777 2019] [:error] [pid 16932] [client 10.32.32.121:64234]     django.setup(set_prefix=False)
[Thu Jan 24 23:44:43.318796 2019] [:error] [pid 16932] [client 10.32.32.121:64234]   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/__init__.py", line 27, in setup
[Thu Jan 24 23:44:43.318871 2019] [:error] [pid 16932] [client 10.32.32.121:64234]     apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
[Thu Jan 24 23:44:43.318893 2019] [:error] [pid 16932] [client 10.32.32.121:64234]   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 108, in populate
[Thu Jan 24 23:44:43.319068 2019] [:error] [pid 16932] [client 10.32.32.121:64234]     app_config.import_models()
[Thu Jan 24 23:44:43.319113 2019] [:error] [pid 16932] [client 10.32.32.121:64234]   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/apps/config.py", line 202, in import_models
[Thu Jan 24 23:44:43.319273 2019] [:error] [pid 16932] [client 10.32.32.121:64234]     self.models_module = import_module(models_module_name)
[Thu Jan 24 23:44:43.319295 2019] [:error] [pid 16932] [client 10.32.32.121:64234]   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in import_module
[Thu Jan 24 23:44:43.319377 2019] [:error] [pid 16932] [client 10.32.32.121:64234]     __import__(name)
[Thu Jan 24 23:44:43.319396 2019] [:error] [pid 16932] [client 10.32.32.121:64234]   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/graphite/events/models.py", line 6, in <module>
[Thu Jan 24 23:44:43.319467 2019] [:error] [pid 16932] [client 10.32.32.121:64234]     from tagging.managers import ModelTaggedItemManager
[Thu Jan 24 23:44:43.319486 2019] [:error] [pid 16932] [client 10.32.32.121:64234]   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tagging/managers.py", line 8, in <module>
[Thu Jan 24 23:44:43.319570 2019] [:error] [pid 16932] [client 10.32.32.121:64234]     from tagging.models import Tag, TaggedItem
[Thu Jan 24 23:44:43.319595 2019] [:error] [pid 16932] [client 10.32.32.121:64234]   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tagging/models.py", line 10, in <module>
[Thu Jan 24 23:44:43.319776 2019] [:error] [pid 16932] [client 10.32.32.121:64234]     from django.contrib.contenttypes import generic
[Thu Jan 24 23:44:43.319815 2019] [:error] [pid 16932] [client 10.32.32.121:64234] ImportError: cannot import name generic```

[deniszh]

Hello @fuzzball5000,
Unfortunately, Django 1.7 is not supported. Graphite 1.0.x and newer require Django >=1.8, Graphite 0.9.x supports only Django 1.4

[fuzzball5000]

Thanks @deniszh, although I tried 1.8 with similar results, syncdb works when forced to use a PYTHONPATH which has an older Django installed. I think we've narrowed the issue down to graphite picking up a newer Django from somewhere in the path - will attempt to run it up in a virtualenv.

[piotr1212]

Probably path issue, hope we can improve it with #2409