pdagent fails to run on Ubuntu 24

[misilot]

$ /usr/share/pdagent/bin/pdagentd

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/pdagent/bin/pdagentd.py", line 75, in <module>
    import pdagent.config
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pdagent/config.py", line 38, in <module>
    from pdagent.thirdparty.six.moves import configparser
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pdagent.thirdparty.six.moves'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/pdagent/bin/pdagentd.py", line 81, in <module>
    import pdagent.config
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pdagent/config.py", line 38, in <module>
    from pdagent.thirdparty.six.moves import configparser
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pdagent.thirdparty.six.moves'

[n-rodriguez]

Hi there! Any news?

[firecow]

We are experiencing the same issue. So we have to stay on Ubuntu 22.04 on our nagios server, which is less than ideal.

[n-rodriguez]

We are experiencing the same issue. So we have to stay on Ubuntu 22.04 on our nagios server, which is less than ideal

I solved this by installing python 3.11 with asdf in nagios home, installing pd-agent python lib in nagios home (git clone) and using PYTHONPATH to load pd-agent lib

[choffee]

It seems to be a problem with the old copy of six.py that is imported. Trying with the latest version of six.py gets passed the import error but then gives a SafeConfigParser errror.

[choffee]

Updating the six.py to the latest upstream and then editing the config.py to change

config = configparser.SafeConfigParser()

to

config = configparser.ConfigParser()

Seems to get the agent started at least.
Would be great to get a proper fix and a new release.

[johje349]

This small script to fixes it for me:

#!/usr/bin/bash

PDAGENT_PATH="/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pdagent"

echo "Fixing six"
ln -sf /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/six.py "${PDAGENT_PATH}/thirdparty/six.py"

echo "Patching config.py"
sed -i 's/configparser\.SafeConfigParser/configparser.ConfigParser/g' "${PDAGENT_PATH}/config.py"

echo "Restarting pdagent"
service pdagent restart