Exception: Failed to execute command: in 'Bootstrap buildout' play

[djowett]

I'm on Ubuntu 12.04, deploying Plone 4.3.7 and am seeing an error like this:

TASK [plone.plone_server : Bootstrap buildout] *********************************
fatal: [plone11]: FAILED! => {"changed": true, "cmd": ["../python2.7/bin/python2.7", "bootstrap.py", "--setuptools-version=8.0.4"], "delta": "0:00:00.874500", ...

If I run this outside Ansible, it looks like this:

$ sudo -u plone_buildout ../python2.7/bin/python2.7 bootstrap.py --setuptools-version=8.0.4
error: None
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bootstrap.py", line 172, in <module>
    "Failed to execute command:\n%s" % repr(cmd)[1:-1])
Exception: Failed to execute command:
'/usr/local/plone-4.3/highfields/../python2.7/bin/python2.7', '-c', 'from setuptools.command.easy_install import main; main()', '-mZqNxd', '/tmp/tmpnwlSux', 'zc.buildout==2.5.2'

Python on Ubuntu 12.04 is only at 2.7.3, and Setuptools on the server is up at 24.3.0, so maybe that's an issue, but I can't seem to pin it down.

The only things I've found online that looks similar are these:
pypa/setuptools#543
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2014-September/024759.html

[djowett]

I think this is an issue with versions. I pinned setuptools to 0.6c11 and zc.buildout to 1.7.1 and got it working somehow. Will add a branch to show how next week

[djowett]

For the record, this is solved for me by jowent@1f65ae2 - though as noted there, if you are using the playbook, you will also want to add...

plone_additional_versions:
  - "setuptools = 0.6c11"