lunaryorn/pyudev — Issue #38: version 0.14 possibly breaks synaptiks
Author: perfecttrc
Created: 2012-02-10 17:39:18+00:00
State: open

Just in case this isn't a problem with synaptiks, I'm going to submit a report here and then also to synpatiks developers.

Anyways, after upgrade from 0.13 to 0.14 synaptiks stopped working and outputted the following errors.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/synaptiks", line 5, in
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2727, in
add_activation_listener(lambda dist: dist.activate())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 700, in subscribe
callback(dist)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2727, in
add_activation_listener(lambda dist: dist.activate())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2227, in activate
self.insert_on(path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2334, in insert_on
self.check_version_conflict()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2373, in check_version_conflict
for modname in self._get_metadata('top_level.txt'):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2221, in _get_metadata
for line in self.get_metadata_lines(name):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1209, in get_metadata_lines
return yield_lines(self.get_metadata(name))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1201, in get_metadata
return self._get(self._fn(self.egg_info,name))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1316, in _get
stream = open(path, 'rb')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyudev-0.14-py2.7.egg-info/top_level.txt'