No module named hotspotd.__main__ about hotspotd

[prahladyeri]

Hi Fattierob,

Thanks for reporting this.

Firstly, did you install it to default python location or did you give a prefix? Cause in case of former, it should have picked up the hotspotd module. The first error indicates that hotspotd module could not be found.

In the second-last snippet, where it says "hotspotd is already running" did it ask for any configuration values before (like SSID, password, etc.) ?

Cheers,
Prahlad

[prahladyeri]

And one more thing. What python version are you using? Can you paste output of python --version

[rkopack343]

Hey sorry for the late reply missed the e-mail notifying me.

I didn't use the apt-get package version I used the wget version - I untar'd it to ~root/hotspotd-0.1 and then ran python setup.py install. That also seems to be the only folder where I can run hotspotd <cmd> without the error.

Yes the second snippet was meant to show that I already had set it up and had it running, sorry! It did indeed ask for configuration values and I entered them in and it worked flawlessly. It was only when I tried running the command out of root did I notice the issue.

root@test:~/hotspotd-0.1# python --version
Python 2.7.3

[prahladyeri]

Thanks for writing.

The error basically occurred because in the startup-script file (/usr/local/bin/hotspotd) I've specified:

python -m hotspotd $*

In your scenario (~root) it expects the entire package.module syntax:

python -m hotspotd.hotspotd $*

Now this is quite an erratic behavior as it expects the first statement in some scenarios and the second in case of others. There is no one statement that works in both scenarios. I've registered a question for this on stackoverflow which is unanswered yet. Lets see what happens!