Error on start for Darwin 11.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.3.0: root:xnu-1699.24.23~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

[jesselee]

Anyone else getting this error:

This appears to be your first time running this version of Splunk.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Applications/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/cli.py", line 17, in
import splunk.clilib.cli_common as comm
File "/Applications/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/init.py", line 2, in
import util, os, logging
File "/Applications/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/util.py", line 13, in
import subprocess
File "/Applications/splunk/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 432, in
import pickle
File "/Applications/splunk/lib/python2.7/pickle.py", line 1266, in
import binascii as _binascii
ImportError: dlopen(/Applications/splunk/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/binascii.so, 2): Library not loaded: @Anonymous_path/../../libz.1.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/splunk/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/binascii.so
Reason: Incompatible library version: binascii.so requires version 4.0.0 or later, but libz.1.dylib provides version 1.0.0

[yannK]

On MAC, try to untar using the command line instead of the Finder extractor.


tar -xvf Splunk-5.0.2.xxxx.tgz
cd splunk/bin
./splunk start


[jbennett_splunk]

I had the same problem on my Mac...

Got help from YannK: when I untar from the command line ( tar -xvf splunk-5.0.2-149561-Darwin-universal.tgz ) everything worked -- looks like there might be some problem with whatever OS X is doing when I double-click to extract.

[aprepo]

Similar, but different, error here:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Applications/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/cli.py", line 17, in
import splunk.clilib.cli_common as comm
File "/Applications/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/cli_common.py", line 5, in
import xml.etree.cElementTree as et
File "/usr/lib/python/xml/etree/cElementTree.py", line 3, in
from _elementtree import *
File "", line 147, in
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'fromstringlist'