Agent not starting pkg_resources.py issue

[turagittech]

Hi I have just installed the newrelic plugin agent on Redhat 6.5 using Python 2.6 getting the following Starting /usr/bin/newrelic-plugin-agent: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/newrelic-plugin-agent", line 5, in <module> from pkg_resources import load_entry_point File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2655, in <module> working_set.require(__requires__) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 648, in require needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements)) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 546, in resolve raise DistributionNotFound(req) pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: argparse

I have tried the various ideas such as making sure packages are up to date, tried the removing line from requires.txt /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/newrelic_plugin_agent-1.3.0-py2.6.egg-info/requires.txt and nothing is resolving it

Thanks for any assistance

[vkijensky]

I had the same error on Centos (AWS EC2).

You have to install yum install python-setuptools or update requests pip install requests --upgrade

[nukedart]

I have the same error as well on CentOs on Ec2.

I updated pip and python-setuptools are installed and up to date. I get the same exact error message and am wondering what I may be missing?

[moacybarros]

I have the same error, pip and python-setuptools are installed and up to date. Any news about it?

[marcusl33beach]

I am running into the same issue. Did you all solve this?

[ircstones]

I am having the exact same error, and it is on 1 of 3 in an ELB cluster where every RHEL image is the same. Did anyone solve this, as I'm stuck.

[AJ2090]

For me same issue after removing request>= line from requirements.txt. Does anybody have a solution...

[AJ2090]

I got it started by upgrading setuptools. execute command pip install -U setuptools and try again. No need to remove line requests>= in requirements.txt