Hi, Galaxy, Developers, My name is Dan Sullivan and I work at the University of Chicago in the newly-formed Center for Research Informatics. This is my first post to this list, and I am a very new Galaxy user, so please be patient with me :-) I have a question regarding an error I am reciecveing when I try to start up galaxy for the first time. I think it might be related to the older version of python I am running (2.4.3-46.el5). I am running this on an RHEL 5 box and the output of "hg parent" command shows 6799 as the chageset number. When I attempt to start galaxy for the first time, I get the following traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./scripts/paster.py", line 34, in ? command.run() File "/opt/local/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteScript-1.7.3-py2.4.egg/paste/script/command.py", line 84, in run invoke(command, command_name, options, args[1:]) File "/opt/local/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteScript-1.7.3-py2.4.egg/paste/script/command.py", line 123, in invoke exit_code = runner.run(args) File "/opt/local/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteScript-1.7.3-py2.4.egg/paste/script/command.py", line 218, in run result = self.command() File "/opt/local/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteScript-1.7.3-py2.4.egg/paste/script/serve.py", line 276, in command relative_to=base, global_conf=vars) File "/opt/local/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteScript-1.7.3-py2.4.egg/paste/script/serve.py", line 311, in loadapp return loadapp( File "/opt/local/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteDeploy-1.3.3-py2.4.egg/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 204, in loadapp return loadobj(APP, uri, name=name, **kw) File "/opt/local/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteDeploy-1.3.3-py2.4.egg/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 224, in loadobj global_conf=global_conf) File "/opt/local/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteDeploy-1.3.3-py2.4.egg/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 248, in loadcontext global_conf=global_conf) File "/opt/local/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteDeploy-1.3.3-py2.4.egg/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 278, in _loadconfig return loader.get_context(object_type, name, global_conf) File "/opt/local/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteDeploy-1.3.3-py2.4.egg/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 413, in get_context section) File "/opt/local/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteDeploy-1.3.3-py2.4.egg/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 458, in _context_from_explicit value = import_string(found_expr) File "/opt/local/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteDeploy-1.3.3-py2.4.egg/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 18, in import_string return pkg_resources.EntryPoint.parse("x="+s).load(False) File "/opt/local/galaxy-dist/lib/pkg_resources.py", line 1954, in load entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__']) File "/opt/local/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/web/buildapp.py", line 19, in ? from galaxy import config, jobs, util, tools File "/opt/local/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/jobs/__init__.py", line 4, in ? from galaxy import util, model File "/opt/local/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/model/__init__.py", line 13, in ? import galaxy.datatypes.registry File "/opt/local/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/datatypes/registry.py", line 146 finally: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax [dansully@pegasus tmp]$ Is this somthing that somebody could possibly commment on? Should I just try to install a more recent version of python? Thank-you so much for your help and guidance. Dan Sullivan