Hi Anne,

Can you replace the config_elems_to_xml_file() method on line 15 of ~/lib/galaxy/util/shed_util.py with the following method which contains 2 debugging statements?  You'll need to once again remove the installed repository from disk, remove the tow for it in the tool_shed_repository table, and restart your Galaxy server.  Try installing the repository again and your paster log will include the debugging statement's output.  Send your paster log to me with this output.

Thanks!

def config_elems_to_xml_file( app, shed_tool_conf_dict ):
    log.debug("XXX shed_tool_conf_dict: %s" % str( shed_tool_conf_dict ))
    # Persist the current in-memory list of config_elems in the received shed_tool_conf_dict
    # to a file named by the value of config_filename in the received shed_tool_conf_dict.  
    config_filename = shed_tool_conf_dict[ 'config_filename' ]
    tool_path = shed_tool_conf_dict[ 'tool_path' ]
    config_elems = shed_tool_conf_dict[ 'config_elems' ]
    fd, filename = tempfile.mkstemp()
    os.write( fd, '<?xml version="1.0"?>\n' )
    os.write( fd, '<toolbox tool_path="%s">\n' % str( tool_path ) )
    for elem in config_elems:
        log.debug("XXX elem: %s" % str( elem ))
        os.write( fd, '%s' % util.xml_to_string( elem, pretty=True ) )
    os.write( fd, '</toolbox>\n' )
    os.close( fd )
    shutil.move( filename, os.path.abspath( config_filename ) )
    os.chmod( config_filename, 0644 )



On Jan 30, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Anne Pajon wrote:

Hi Greg,

Please see below my inline answers to your questions.

On 30 Jan 2012, at 15:37, Greg Von Kuster wrote:

Hi Anne,

From your paster log it looks like the repository is installed, but for whatever reason your shed_tool_conf.xml file cannot be updated.  I've tried many things, but am not able to reproduce this.  Can you answer the following?

Have you ever been able to install a tool from the tool shed, or is this your first attempt?

This is my first attempt, I never been able to install any tools properly from the tool shed.



Is the tabular2html repository successfully installed on disk?

Yes it is and the tool even works in Galaxy the problem starts when you restart the server then the tool is not present in the tool menu anymore.



Is there a row added to the tool_shed_repository database table for the tabular2html repository?

Yes and here is what I have in this table:

id |        create_time        |        update_time         |       tool_shed        |     name     |              description               | owner  | changeset_revision | deleted |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      metadata                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | includes_datatypes | update_available | installed_changeset_revision | uninstalled | dist_to_shed
----+---------------------------+----------------------------+------------------------+--------------+----------------------------------------+--------+--------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------+------------------+------------------------------+-------------+--------------
 2 | 2012-01-30 09:54:42.31609 | 2012-01-30 09:54:42.316111 | toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu | tabular2html | Creates HTML tables from tabular data. | ondovb | a5814dd5a11a       | f       | {"tool_panel_section": {"id": "myTools", "name": "My Tools", "version": null}, "tools": [{"description": "for easier table viewing", "guid": "toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/ondovb/tabular2html/tabular2HTML/1.0.0", "id": "tabular2HTML", "name": "Tabular-to-HTML", "requirements": [], "tests": [], "tool_config": "../shed_tools/toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/ondovb/tabular2html/a5814dd5a11a/tabular2html/tabular2HTML.xml", "version": "1.0.0", "version_string_cmd": null}]} | f                  | f                | a5814dd5a11a                 | f           | f
(1 row)



What database are you using for your Galaxy instance?

I am using PostgreSQL.



What setting do you have for tool_config_file in your universe_wsgi.ini?  For the file to which the setting refers, can you paste its entire contents below?


In the universe_wsgi.ini, I have:
tool_config_file = tool_conf.xml,shed_tool_conf.xml

shed_tool_conf.xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<toolbox tool_path="../shed_tools">
</toolbox>


Thanks for your help.
Kind regards,
Anne.
Thanks!


On Jan 30, 2012, at 5:12 AM, Anne Pajon wrote:

Hi Greg,

Thanks for your answer.

I've deleted the row in the tool_shed_repository table, removed the installed tool shed repository from disk, updated my Galaxy instance to 6629:cb458aca542e from Galaxy central and restarted Galaxy server.

I am sorry to say but I do still have the same problem (Server Error when installing and shed_tool_conf.xml not updated). Any ideas on why it does not work? Thanks to let me know.

Here is my log:

galaxy.util.shed_util DEBUG 2012-01-30 09:54:40,555 Installing repository 'tabular2html'
galaxy.util.shed_util DEBUG 2012-01-30 09:54:40,556 Cloning http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/ondovb/tabular2html
galaxy.util.shed_util DEBUG 2012-01-30 09:54:42,165 Updating cloned repository to revision "a5814dd5a11a"
galaxy.util.shed_util DEBUG 2012-01-30 09:54:42,308 Adding new row (or updating an existing row) for repository 'tabular2html' in the tool_shed_repository table.
galaxy.tools DEBUG 2012-01-30 09:54:42,376 Reloading section: My Tools
galaxy.tools DEBUG 2012-01-30 09:54:42,404 Loaded tool id: toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/ondovb/tabular2html/tabular2HTML/1.0.0, version: 1.0.0.
143.65.172.178 - - [30/Jan/2012:09:54:40 +0100] "POST /galaxy/admin_toolshed/install_repository?tool_shed_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftoolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu&repo_info_dict=3abd29129982504350fb737085131cc07e47cc03%3A7b22746162756c61723268746d6c223a205b22437265617465732048544d4c207461626c65732066726f6d20746162756c617220646174612e222c2022687474703a2f2f746f6f6c736865642e67322e62782e7073752e6564752f7265706f732f6f6e646f76622f746162756c61723268746d6c222c2022613538313464643561313161225d7d&includes_tools=True HTTP/1.1" 500 - "http://uk-cri-lbio08/galaxy/admin_toolshed/install_repository?tool_shed_url=http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu&repo_info_dict=3abd29129982504350fb737085131cc07e47cc03:7b22746162756c61723268746d6c223a205b22437265617465732048544d4c207461626c65732066726f6d20746162756c617220646174612e222c2022687474703a2f2f746f6f6c736865642e67322e62782e7073752e6564752f7265706f732f6f6e646f76622f746162756c61723268746d6c222c2022613538313464643561313161225d7d&includes_tools=True" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13"
Error - <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: cannot serialize None (type NoneType)
URL: http://uk-cri-lbio08/galaxy/admin_toolshed/install_repository?tool_shed_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftoolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu&repo_info_dict=3abd29129982504350fb737085131cc07e47cc03%3A7b22746162756c61723268746d6c223a205b22437265617465732048544d4c207461626c65732066726f6d20746162756c617220646174612e222c2022687474703a2f2f746f6f6c736865642e67322e62782e7073752e6564752f7265706f732f6f6e646f76622f746162756c61723268746d6c222c2022613538313464643561313161225d7d&includes_tools=True
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/Paste-1.6-py2.7.egg/paste/exceptions/errormiddleware.py', line 143 in __call__
app_iter = self.application(environ, start_response)
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/Paste-1.6-py2.7.egg/paste/recursive.py', line 80 in __call__
return self.application(environ, start_response)
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/Paste-1.6-py2.7.egg/paste/httpexceptions.py', line 632 in __call__
return self.application(environ, start_response)
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/web/framework/base.py', line 160 in __call__
body = method( trans, **kwargs )
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/web/framework/__init__.py', line 173 in decorator
return func( self, trans, *args, **kwargs )
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/web/controllers/admin_toolshed.py', line 284 in install_repository
dist_to_shed=False )
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/util/shed_util.py', line 649 in load_repository_contents
uninstall=False )
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/util/shed_util.py', line 782 in alter_tool_panel
config_elems_to_xml_file( app, shed_tool_conf_dict )
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/util/shed_util.py', line 25 in config_elems_to_xml_file
os.write( fd, '%s' % util.xml_to_string( elem, pretty=True ) )
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/util/__init__.py', line 113 in xml_to_string
return ElementTree.tostring( pretty_print_xml( elem ) )
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/elementtree-1.2.6_20050316-py2.7.egg/elementtree/ElementTree.py', line 1006 in tostring
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/elementtree-1.2.6_20050316-py2.7.egg/elementtree/ElementTree.py', line 660 in write
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/elementtree-1.2.6_20050316-py2.7.egg/elementtree/ElementTree.py', line 695 in _write
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/elementtree-1.2.6_20050316-py2.7.egg/elementtree/ElementTree.py', line 827 in _escape_attrib
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/elementtree-1.2.6_20050316-py2.7.egg/elementtree/ElementTree.py', line 774 in _raise_serialization_error
TypeError: cannot serialize None (type NoneType)


Kind regards,
Anne.

On 27 Jan 2012, at 19:38, Greg Von Kuster wrote:

Hi Anne,

OK, the only other thing this could be is that the metadata column in the tool_shed_repository database table for this repository got corrupted during the initial install when the revision of your Galaxy instance was not up to date.  So, if the repository once again got installed on disk, but the entry for the tool didn't make it into shed_tool_conf,xml, then manually remove the repository from disk again.  Then either update the metadata column in the tool shed repository table for this repository to be null or delete the record from the table.

If you're using postgres, then the update statement would be something like:

update tool_shed_repository set metadata = null where id = <whatever the id is of the tabular2html tool shed repository>

You could also delete this record from the table and it will be recreated when you install the repository.

After taking these 2 steps, you should be able to install the tool with no problem.  However, if there is an entry in your shed_tool_conf.xml file, remove it manually before attempting to reinstall.

Sorry for all of this, but once you have your environment cleared up (following the steps above) and you're running the correct change set, installing from the tool shed should not cause you problems.

Let me know how this goes.

Greg Von Kuster


On Jan 27, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Anne Pajon wrote:

Hi Greg,

Thanks for your answer. I've upgraded my Galaxy instance to 56bdee21dc78 from Galaxy central repository.

I tried again to install tabular2html from the tool shed, but I get the same problem (Server Error when installing and shed_tool_conf.xml not updated). Here is my log in case it helps.

galaxy.util.shed_util DEBUG 2012-01-27 19:20:52,660 Installing repository 'tabular2html'
galaxy.util.shed_util DEBUG 2012-01-27 19:20:52,660 Cloning http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/ondovb/tabular2html
galaxy.util.shed_util DEBUG 2012-01-27 19:20:53,839 Updating cloned repository to revision "a5814dd5a11a"
galaxy.util.shed_util DEBUG 2012-01-27 19:20:53,982 Adding new row (or updating an existing row) for repository 'tabular2html' in the tool_shed_repository table.
galaxy.tools DEBUG 2012-01-27 19:20:54,050 Reloading section: My Tools
galaxy.tools DEBUG 2012-01-27 19:20:54,078 Loaded tool id: toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/ondovb/tabular2html/tabular2HTML/1.0.0, version: 1.0.0.
143.65.172.178 - - [27/Jan/2012:19:20:52 +0100] "POST /galaxy/admin_toolshed/install_repository?tool_shed_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftoolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu&repo_info_dict=3abd29129982504350fb737085131cc07e47cc03%3A7b22746162756c61723268746d6c223a205b22437265617465732048544d4c207461626c65732066726f6d20746162756c617220646174612e222c2022687474703a2f2f746f6f6c736865642e67322e62782e7073752e6564752f7265706f732f6f6e646f76622f746162756c61723268746d6c222c2022613538313464643561313161225d7d&includes_tools=True HTTP/1.1" 500 - "http://uk-cri-lbio08/galaxy/admin_toolshed/install_repository?tool_shed_url=http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu&repo_info_dict=3abd29129982504350fb737085131cc07e47cc03:7b22746162756c61723268746d6c223a205b22437265617465732048544d4c207461626c65732066726f6d20746162756c617220646174612e222c2022687474703a2f2f746f6f6c736865642e67322e62782e7073752e6564752f7265706f732f6f6e646f76622f746162756c61723268746d6c222c2022613538313464643561313161225d7d&includes_tools=True" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13"
Error - <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: cannot serialize None (type NoneType)
URL: http://uk-cri-lbio08/galaxy/admin_toolshed/install_repository?tool_shed_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftoolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu&repo_info_dict=3abd29129982504350fb737085131cc07e47cc03%3A7b22746162756c61723268746d6c223a205b22437265617465732048544d4c207461626c65732066726f6d20746162756c617220646174612e222c2022687474703a2f2f746f6f6c736865642e67322e62782e7073752e6564752f7265706f732f6f6e646f76622f746162756c61723268746d6c222c2022613538313464643561313161225d7d&includes_tools=True
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/Paste-1.6-py2.7.egg/paste/exceptions/errormiddleware.py', line 143 in __call__
app_iter = self.application(environ, start_response)
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/Paste-1.6-py2.7.egg/paste/recursive.py', line 80 in __call__
return self.application(environ, start_response)
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/Paste-1.6-py2.7.egg/paste/httpexceptions.py', line 632 in __call__
return self.application(environ, start_response)
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/web/framework/base.py', line 160 in __call__
body = method( trans, **kwargs )
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/web/framework/__init__.py', line 173 in decorator
return func( self, trans, *args, **kwargs )
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/web/controllers/admin_toolshed.py', line 284 in install_repository
dist_to_shed=False )
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/util/shed_util.py', line 649 in load_repository_contents
uninstall=False )
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/util/shed_util.py', line 782 in alter_tool_panel
config_elems_to_xml_file( app, shed_tool_conf_dict )
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/util/shed_util.py', line 25 in config_elems_to_xml_file
os.write( fd, '%s' % util.xml_to_string( elem, pretty=True ) )
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/util/__init__.py', line 113 in xml_to_string
return ElementTree.tostring( pretty_print_xml( elem ) )
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/elementtree-1.2.6_20050316-py2.7.egg/elementtree/ElementTree.py', line 1006 in tostring
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/elementtree-1.2.6_20050316-py2.7.egg/elementtree/ElementTree.py', line 660 in write
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/elementtree-1.2.6_20050316-py2.7.egg/elementtree/ElementTree.py', line 695 in _write
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/elementtree-1.2.6_20050316-py2.7.egg/elementtree/ElementTree.py', line 827 in _escape_attrib
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/elementtree-1.2.6_20050316-py2.7.egg/elementtree/ElementTree.py', line 774 in _raise_serialization_error
TypeError: cannot serialize None (type NoneType)


CGI Variables
-------------
CONTENT_LENGTH: '-1'
CONTENT_TYPE: 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
HTTP_ACCEPT: 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8'
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET: 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7'
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: 'gzip,deflate'
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: 'en-gb,en;q=0.5'
HTTP_CONNECTION: 'Keep-Alive'
HTTP_COOKIE: 'galaxysession=c6ca0ddb55be603aa515e6fea2e6b40cf5afc201038ba85081133d60514acdbf77c49debb2b2d1be'
HTTP_HOST: 'uk-cri-lbio08'
HTTP_MAX_FORWARDS: '10'
HTTP_REFERER: 'http://uk-cri-lbio08/galaxy/admin_toolshed/install_repository?tool_shed_url=http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu&repo_info_dict=3abd29129982504350fb737085131cc07e47cc03:7b22746162756c61723268746d6c223a205b22437265617465732048544d4c207461626c65732066726f6d20746162756c617220646174612e222c2022687474703a2f2f746f6f6c736865642e67322e62782e7073752e6564752f7265706f732f6f6e646f76622f746162756c61723268746d6c222c2022613538313464643561313161225d7d&includes_tools=True'
HTTP_USER_AGENT: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13'
PATH_INFO: '/admin_toolshed/install_repository'
QUERY_STRING: 'tool_shed_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftoolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu&repo_info_dict=3abd29129982504350fb737085131cc07e47cc03%3A7b22746162756c61723268746d6c223a205b22437265617465732048544d4c207461626c65732066726f6d20746162756c617220646174612e222c2022687474703a2f2f746f6f6c736865642e67322e62782e7073752e6564752f7265706f732f6f6e646f76622f746162756c61723268746d6c222c2022613538313464643561313161225d7d&includes_tools=True'
REMOTE_ADDR: '143.65.172.178'
REQUEST_METHOD: 'POST'
SCRIPT_NAME: '/galaxy'
SERVER_NAME: 'uk-cri-lbio08.crnet.org'
SERVER_PORT: '8080'
SERVER_PROTOCOL: 'HTTP/1.1'


Configuration
-------------
__file__: '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/universe_wsgi.ini'
admin_users: 'anne.pajon@cancer.org.uk'
brand: 'CRUK-CRI:test'
cookie_path: '/galaxy'
database_connection: 'postgres://galaxy:galaxy@localhost:5432/galaxy'
debug: 'False'
enable_tracks: 'True'
file_path: '/data_ls/galaxy/data/files'
here: '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist'
len_file_path: 'tool-data/shared/ucsc/chrom'
logo_url: '/galaxy'
new_file_path: '/data_ls/galaxy/data/tmp'
nglims_config_file: 'tool-data/nglims.yaml'
static_cache_time: '360'
static_dir: '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/static/'
static_enabled: 'True'
static_favicon_dir: '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/static/favicon.ico'
static_images_dir: '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/static/images'
static_robots_txt: '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/static/robots.txt'
static_scripts_dir: '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/static/scripts/'
static_style_dir: '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/static/june_2007_style/blue'
tool_config_file: 'tool_conf.xml,shed_tool_conf.xml'
tool_path: 'tools'
use_interactive: 'False'
use_nglims: 'False'


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--------------
application: <paste.recursive.RecursiveMiddleware object at 0xf69c910>
paste.cookies: (<SimpleCookie: galaxysession='c6ca0ddb55be603aa515e6fea2e6b40cf5afc201038ba85081133d60514acdbf77c49debb2b2d1be'>, 'galaxysession=c6ca0ddb55be603aa515e6fea2e6b40cf5afc201038ba85081133d60514acdbf77c49debb2b2d1be')
paste.expected_exceptions: [<class 'paste.httpexceptions.HTTPException'>]
paste.httpexceptions: <paste.httpexceptions.HTTPExceptionHandler object at 0xf69c3d0>
paste.httpserver.thread_pool: <paste.httpserver.ThreadPool object at 0xa3e3990>
paste.parsed_querystring: ([('tool_shed_url', 'http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu'), ('repo_info_dict', '3abd29129982504350fb737085131cc07e47cc03:7b22746162756c61723268746d6c223a205b22437265617465732048544d4c207461626c65732066726f6d20746162756c617220646174612e222c2022687474703a2f2f746f6f6c736865642e67322e62782e7073752e6564752f7265706f732f6f6e646f76622f746162756c61723268746d6c222c2022613538313464643561313161225d7d'), ('includes_tools', 'True')], 'tool_shed_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftoolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu&repo_info_dict=3abd29129982504350fb737085131cc07e47cc03%3A7b22746162756c61723268746d6c223a205b22437265617465732048544d4c207461626c65732066726f6d20746162756c617220646174612e222c2022687474703a2f2f746f6f6c736865642e67322e62782e7073752e6564752f7265706f732f6f6e646f76622f746162756c61723268746d6c222c2022613538313464643561313161225d7d&includes_tools=True')
paste.recursive.forward: <paste.recursive.Forwarder from /galaxy>
paste.recursive.include: <paste.recursive.Includer from /galaxy>
paste.recursive.include_app_iter: <paste.recursive.IncluderAppIter from /galaxy>
paste.recursive.script_name: '/galaxy'
paste.throw_errors: True
webob._parsed_post_vars: (MultiDict([('shed_tool_conf', 'shed_tool_conf.xml'), ('new_tool_panel_section', ''), ('tool_panel_section', 'myTools'), ('select_tool_panel_section_button', 'Install')]), <FakeCGIBody at e9c2350 viewing MultiDict([('sh...l')])>)
webob._parsed_query_vars: (MultiDict([('tool_shed_url', 'http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu'), ('repo_info_dict', '3abd29129982504350fb737085131cc07e47cc03:7b22746162756c61723268746d6c223a205b22437265617465732048544d4c207461626c65732066726f6d20746162756c617220646174612e222c2022687474703a2f2f746f6f6c736865642e67322e62782e7073752e6564752f7265706f732f6f6e646f76622f746162756c61723268746d6c222c2022613538313464643561313161225d7d'), ('includes_tools', 'True')]), 'tool_shed_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftoolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu&repo_info_dict=3abd29129982504350fb737085131cc07e47cc03%3A7b22746162756c61723268746d6c223a205b22437265617465732048544d4c207461626c65732066726f6d20746162756c617220646174612e222c2022687474703a2f2f746f6f6c736865642e67322e62782e7073752e6564752f7265706f732f6f6e646f76622f746162756c61723268746d6c222c2022613538313464643561313161225d7d&includes_tools=True')
wsgi process: 'Multithreaded'
------------------------------------------------------------

Kind regards,
Anne.


On 27 Jan 2012, at 15:55, Greg Von Kuster wrote:

Hi Anne, see my inline comments.

On Jan 27, 2012, at 10:26 AM, Anne Pajon wrote:

Hi Greg,

Thanks a lot. I have the impression from what I read on the wiki that Galaxy will be using the tool shed to provide more flexibility in choosing tools instead of having them bundle in the current distribution. We are very much interested by these new features because we only use a subset of the available tools plus some that we have developed in house.

Yes, this is correct.  At some point, a subset of the tools currently in the Galaxy distribution will be moved to the main Galaxy tool shed from which they can be easily installed using Galaxy's new installation manager.  You'll be able to very easily install any portion of the tools that will be eliminated from the distribution.  All of this is now functional in the latest version of Galaxy as well as the main Galaxy tool shed, but the timeline for beginning to eliminate tools from the distribution is yet to be determined.

The tip of the central repository, which will be added to the Galaxy distribution repository today, includes the ability to deactivate or uninstall repositories that you've installed from the tool shed, enabling much more flexibility in managing the tools that are included in your Galaxy tool panel.  The last section of the tool shed wiki describes this new feature set:

http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Tool%20Shed#Deactivating_and_uninstalling_tool_shed_repositories_installed_into_a_local_Galaxy_instance


From what you are saying, I have the impression that I will be better of running my Galaxy instance against the central repository instead of the distribution one if I do not want to wait for bug fixes. Am I right of thinking that? If so, I will migrate to the central repository and let you know how it goes.

Although this is not ideal, it is unfortunately necessary at least for the current time.  At some point, the communication layers between Galaxy and the tool shed will stabilize to the point that the distribution repository can be used, but in the meantime, the central repository is required.  My advice for now would be to have your Galaxy instance track central, but not necessarily update it all of the time.  I believe the update to the distribution going out today will be change set 6621:26920e20157f, which includes all new tool shed features.  So although this is not the latest on the central repo, you can update to that revision if you want.  To do so, change your hgrc to pull from Galaxy central and use the following.

hg pull -u 26920e20157f

If you are comfortable in updating to the latest from central, just use

hg pull -u


Before migrating and updating I will manually remove the installed tool shed repository from disk as you advised.

Kind regards,
Anne.


On 27 Jan 2012, at 14:57, Greg Von Kuster wrote:

Hi Anne,

A new update to the Galaxy distribution repository is planned for today, I believe, so unless that changes you should be able to update your Galaxy instance either today or Monday using the distribution repository.  However, this problem will continue to exist between Galaxy instances that track the distribution repository and that also want to take advantage of the Galaxy tool shed features that enable direct interaction between Galaxy and the tool shed.  The tool shed features are implement much more rapidly than the Galaxy distribution is updated, resulting in this ongoing problem.

Regarding the state of your local instance and the tool shed repository you attempted to install - if I understand correctly, the repository was successfully installed on disk, but the XML tag set entry for the contained tool was not added to your shed_tool_conf.xml file.  If this is the case, then you'll need to manually remove the installed tool shed repository from disk before you try installing it again after updating your Galaxy instance to the new upcoming distribution.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Greg

On Jan 27, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Anne Pajon wrote:

Hello Greg,

Thanks a lot for your answer and sorry for having sent two emails.

Regarding the version of our local instance, I understand perfectly that the Galaxy distribution repository is behind the Galaxy central repository but we would like to use Galaxy on a production server and we are looking at stable releases not development ones. What would you advice us to do?

Here is the value for tool_path in my shed_tool_conf.xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<toolbox tool_path="../shed_tools">
</toolbox>

I'm waiting your advice to migrate my repository from Galaxy distribution to Galaxy central. Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,
Anne.


On 27 Jan 2012, at 13:03, Greg Von Kuster wrote:

Hello Anne,

I apologize for the delay in responding to you on this.  The first issue I see is that the revision of your local Galaxy instance implies that your repo is not being updated from the Galaxy central repository on bitbucket.  Unfortunately in order to use the tool shed, you local Galaxy instance must be up to date with the central repository since the Galaxy distribution repository generally lags 6 to 8 weeks behind the central repository, and so the communication between Galaxy and the tool shed is often not functionally correct.  The central repository on bitbucket is current at revision 6626:d8af2f7b1f35.

For clarification what value have you set for the tool_path config setting in your shed_tool_conf.xml file?

After you update your Galaxy instance, try installing the tool again and let me know if you encounter issues.

Thanks very much!

Greg Von Kuster


On Jan 27, 2012, at 5:55 AM, Anne Pajon wrote:

Hello,

When installing a tool from the tool shed repository into our local instance, I've got a page with "Server error".  When restarting Galaxy, the imported tool has disappeared from the blue left list of tools. After installing the tool, the file shed_tool_conf.xml has not been updated.

Bellow is my previous email "server error when installing tool from tool shed repository into local instance" sent two days ago detailing what I have done and the log related to the error.

Sorry to ask again but I did not solve the problem and I am still looking for help. I just wanted to re-formulate the issue in a shorter way.

Let me know if you have any suggestions.
Kind regards,
Anne.


On 25 Jan 2012, at 16:43, Anne Pajon wrote:

Hello,

I have the version 6528:63bc46cc73b7 of galaxy running locally on our server installed from https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-dist/.

I've tried to bring tabular2html tool from Galaxy main tool shed repository following the wiki information (http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Tool%20Shed#Automatic_installation_of_Galaxy_tool_shed_repository_tools_into_a_local_Galaxy_instance) without success.

Here is what I've done.

(1) I've edited my universe_wsgi.ini
# -- Files and directories

# Tool config files, defines what tools are available in Galaxy.
# Tools can be locally developed or installed from Galaxy tool sheds.
tool_config_file = tool_conf.xml,shed_tool_conf.xml

# Default path to the directory containing the tools defined in tool_conf.xml.
# Other tool config files must include the tool_path as an attribute in the <toolbox> tag.
tool_path = tools

(2) I've created the directory shed_tools/ above the galaxy-dist/ as recommended

(3) I've restarted the server

(4) I've logged in as "admin" user. I've clicked the "Admin" link in the top Galaxy tool panel to display the Galaxy Administration interface and then "Search and browse tool sheds" under "Tool sheds" from the left blue section to display the Accessible Galaxy tool sheds page, click "Galaxy main tool shed" to display the valid repositories and choose tabular2html and click on Install to local Galaxy, select the panel section and click Install.

I get a page with "Server Error".

Strangely, the tool appears in the list of tools and works in my Galaxy instance. The tool files have been installed on disk at the directory created in (2) but the shed_tool_conf.xml has not been updated. After restarting my Galaxy server, the tool is not visible anymore.

Here is what appears in the log related to the installation of the tool:
galaxy.util.shed_util DEBUG 2012-01-25 14:20:54,451 Installing repository 'tabular2html'
galaxy.util.shed_util DEBUG 2012-01-25 14:20:54,451 Cloning http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/ondovb/tabular2html
galaxy.util.shed_util DEBUG 2012-01-25 14:20:55,486 Updating cloned repository to revision "a5814dd5a11a"
galaxy.tools DEBUG 2012-01-25 14:20:55,652 Reloading section: My Tools
galaxy.tools DEBUG 2012-01-25 14:20:55,673 Loaded tool id: toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/ondovb/tabular2html/tabular2HTML/1.0.0, version: 1.0
.0.
143.65.172.178 - - [25/Jan/2012:14:20:54 +0100] "POST /galaxy/admin_toolshed/install_repository?tool_shed_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftoolshed.g2.bx.ps
u.edu&repo_info_dict=3abd29129982504350fb737085131cc07e47cc03%3A7b22746162756c61723268746d6c223a205b22437265617465732048544d4c207461626c6573
2066726f6d20746162756c617220646174612e222c2022687474703a2f2f746f6f6c736865642e67322e62782e7073752e6564752f7265706f732f6f6e646f76622f74616275
6c61723268746d6c222c2022613538313464643561313161225d7d&includes_tools=True HTTP/1.1" 500 - "http://uk-cri-lbio08/galaxy/admin_toolshed/insta
ll_repository?tool_shed_url=http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu&repo_info_dict=3abd29129982504350fb737085131cc07e47cc03:7b22746162756c61723268746d
6c223a205b22437265617465732048544d4c207461626c65732066726f6d20746162756c617220646174612e222c2022687474703a2f2f746f6f6c736865642e67322e62782e
7073752e6564752f7265706f732f6f6e646f76622f746162756c61723268746d6c222c2022613538313464643561313161225d7d&includes_tools=True" "Mozilla/5.0 (
Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13"
Error - <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: cannot serialize None (type NoneType)
URL: http://uk-cri-lbio08/galaxy/admin_toolshed/install_repository?tool_shed_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftoolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu&repo_info_dict=3abd2912
9982504350fb737085131cc07e47cc03%3A7b22746162756c61723268746d6c223a205b22437265617465732048544d4c207461626c65732066726f6d20746162756c6172206
46174612e222c2022687474703a2f2f746f6f6c736865642e67322e62782e7073752e6564752f7265706f732f6f6e646f76622f746162756c61723268746d6c222c202261353
8313464643561313161225d7d&includes_tools=True
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/Paste-1.6-py2.7.egg/paste/exceptions/errormiddleware.py', line 143 in __call__
app_iter = self.application(environ, start_response)
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/Paste-1.6-py2.7.egg/paste/recursive.py', line 80 in __call__
return self.application(environ, start_response)
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/Paste-1.6-py2.7.egg/paste/httpexceptions.py', line 632 in __call__
return self.application(environ, start_response)
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/web/framework/base.py', line 160 in __call__
body = method( trans, **kwargs )
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/web/framework/__init__.py', line 173 in decorator
return func( self, trans, *args, **kwargs )
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/web/controllers/admin_toolshed.py', line 275 in install_repository
new_install=True )
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/util/shed_util.py', line 644 in load_repository_contents
add_to_config=True )
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/util/shed_util.py', line 699 in load_altered_part_of_tool_panel
add_shed_tool_conf_entry( app, shed_tool_conf, elem_entry )
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/util/shed_util.py', line 41 in add_shed_tool_conf_entry
new_shed_tool_conf.write( util.xml_to_string( tool_panel_entry, pretty=True ) )
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/util/__init__.py', line 113 in xml_to_string
return ElementTree.tostring( pretty_print_xml( elem ) )
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/elementtree-1.2.6_20050316-py2.7.egg/elementtree/ElementTree.py', line 1006 in tostring
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/elementtree-1.2.6_20050316-py2.7.egg/elementtree/ElementTree.py', line 660 in write
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/elementtree-1.2.6_20050316-py2.7.egg/elementtree/ElementTree.py', line 695 in _write
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/elementtree-1.2.6_20050316-py2.7.egg/elementtree/ElementTree.py', line 827 in _escape_a
ttrib
File '/opt/local/home/webapp/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/elementtree-1.2.6_20050316-py2.7.egg/elementtree/ElementTree.py', line 774 in _raise_se
rialization_error
TypeError: cannot serialize None (type NoneType)

Any help would be very welcome. Thanks a lot in advance.
Kind regards,
Anne.

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