ImportError: The _imagingft C module is not installed

[flaper87]

The latest Pillow release (4.1.0) seems to have broken some of the OpenStack CI jobs. More specifically, it's failing because it can't import _imagingft. By looking into other reports, it seems that the solution has been to install freetype but given the previous version worked well, I'm doubting that's the problem.

2017-04-05 08:16:41.286413 | Traceback (most recent call last):
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286443 |   File "setup.py", line 22, in <module>
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286453 |     pbr=True)
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286471 |   File "/usr/lib/python3.5/distutils/core.py", line 148, in setup
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286480 |     dist.run_commands()
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286499 |   File "/usr/lib/python3.5/distutils/dist.py", line 955, in run_commands
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286509 |     self.run_command(cmd)
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286528 |   File "/usr/lib/python3.5/distutils/dist.py", line 974, in run_command
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286536 |     cmd_obj.run()
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286569 |   File "/home/jenkins/workspace/gate-governance-docs-ubuntu-xenial/.tox/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pbr/builddoc.py", line 200, in run
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286585 |     self._sphinx_run()
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286619 |   File "/home/jenkins/workspace/gate-governance-docs-ubuntu-xenial/.tox/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pbr/builddoc.py", line 155, in _sphinx_run
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286639 |     freshenv=self.fresh_env, warningiserror=self.warning_is_error)
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286673 |   File "/home/jenkins/workspace/gate-governance-docs-ubuntu-xenial/.tox/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/sphinx/application.py", line 199, in __init__
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286686 |     self.setup_extension(extension)
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286723 |   File "/home/jenkins/workspace/gate-governance-docs-ubuntu-xenial/.tox/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/sphinx/application.py", line 523, in setup_extension
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286735 |     ext_meta = mod.setup(self)
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286762 |   File "/home/jenkins/workspace/gate-governance-docs-ubuntu-xenial/doc/source/_exts/badges.py", line 202, in setup
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286775 |     _generate_teams_badges(app)
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286805 |   File "/home/jenkins/workspace/gate-governance-docs-ubuntu-xenial/doc/source/_exts/badges.py", line 173, in _generate_teams_badges
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286826 |     svg_data = _generate_badge('project', 'unofficial', colorscheme='red')
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286855 |   File "/home/jenkins/workspace/gate-governance-docs-ubuntu-xenial/doc/source/_exts/badges.py", line 84, in _generate_badge
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286874 |     font = ImageFont.truetype('DejaVuSans.ttf', 11)
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286907 |   File "/home/jenkins/workspace/gate-governance-docs-ubuntu-xenial/.tox/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py", line 238, in truetype
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286922 |     return FreeTypeFont(font, size, index, encoding)
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286955 |   File "/home/jenkins/workspace/gate-governance-docs-ubuntu-xenial/.tox/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py", line 127, in __init__
2017-04-05 08:16:41.286972 |     self.font = core.getfont(font, size, index, encoding)
2017-04-05 08:16:41.287011 |   File "/home/jenkins/workspace/gate-governance-docs-ubuntu-xenial/.tox/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py", line 37, in __getattr__
2017-04-05 08:16:41.287030 |     raise ImportError("The _imagingft C module is not installed")
2017-04-05 08:16:41.287045 | ImportError: The _imagingft C module is not installed
2017-04-05 08:16:41.336119 | ERROR: InvocationError: '/home/jenkins/workspace/gate-governance-docs-ubuntu-xenial/.tox/venv/bin/python setup.py build_sphinx'

The code calling Pillow is this https://github.com/openstack/governance/blob/master/doc/source/_exts/badges.py#L84

font = ImageFont.truetype('DejaVuSans.ttf', 11)

(Also, credits to @ttx who found it)

[wiredfool]

I'm going to guess that you're installing from source, rather than the previous manylinux wheel binaries, and don't have the dependencies for imagefont, but do for jpeg and libz.

The manylinux wheels didn't get produced yesterday due to EOL on a centos repository that they depend on. That's been fixed overnight, and I'm building the wheels now.

[wiredfool]

Manylinux wheels for x64 are uploaded to pypi, try again now.

[ttx]

Confirmed fixed, thanks !