[zenoss-users] Errors installing on Mac OS X

[Chet Luther]

> I have previously been running zenoss 1.x on Mac OS X with no  
> problem. In trying to upgrade (and subsequently just do a clean  
> install of) 2.1.2, I'm running into all sort of problems for which  
> there seems to be no published workarounds that I can see. This is  
> really frustrating.
>
> The errors come up in trying to zenoss start:
>
> MacOS.Error: (-5551, 'undefined selector was passed to Gestalt')
>
> ImportError: No module named _pywmi

I've seen that first one before, but I don't immediately remember what  
the fix was. What version of Python are you using to run this, and how  
did you install this version of Python? Are you on Tiger or Leopard?

For the _pywmi ImportError you should be able to simply copy $ZENHOME/ 
lib/python/_pywmi.dylib to _pysmi.so in the same directory.