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cfn-init causes error "The 'rpdk.core.project' package was not installed in a way that PackageLoader understands"

Open mrdonee opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Hi, I am trying to run cfn init to create my new resource and I keep getting the following error

=== Unhandled exception ===
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Issue tracker: github.com/aws-cloudformation/cloudformation-cli/issues
Please include the log file 'rpdk.log'

rpdk.log:

[2021-05-19T00:22:27Z] DEBUG    - Logging set up successfully
[2021-05-19T00:22:27Z] DEBUG    - Running None: Namespace(artifact_type=None, command=<function init at 0x1206c3830>, force=False, subparser_name=None, type_name=None, verbose=0, version=False)
[2021-05-19T00:22:27Z] DEBUG    - Unhandled exception
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/rpdk/core/cli.py", line 100, in main
    args.command(args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/rpdk/core/init.py", line 151, in wrapper
    function(args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/rpdk/core/init.py", line 130, in init
    project = Project(args.force)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/rpdk/core/project.py", line 142, in __init__
    loader=PackageLoader(__name__, "templates/"),
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/jinja2/loaders.py", line 310, in __init__
    f"The {package_name!r} package was not installed in a"
ValueError: The 'rpdk.core.project' package was not installed in a way that PackageLoader understands.

I saw some issue called out here which the solution did not help me https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/cloudformation-cli/issues/758#issuecomment-841344266

Could you please offer some assistance for what is wrong?

mrdonee avatar May 19 '21 00:05 mrdonee

Which version of Jinja2 do you have in your Python environment? pip freeze | grep -i 'jinja'

PatMyron avatar May 19 '21 02:05 PatMyron

Jinja2==2.11.3

mrdonee avatar May 19 '21 07:05 mrdonee