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2012-10-24 10:56:50 -0500 asked a question SettingNotSet, Startup error, couldn't load ACCESS_CONTROL.ASKBOT_CLOSED_FORUM_MODE

I'm getting the following message after an initial install of askbot 0.7.43. I'm using python 2.5 on OpenBSD with postgresql. I did make the change suggested at http://askbot.org/en/question/7545/attributeerror-at-askbot_language/ Traceback section is at http://dpaste.com/817760/

SettingNotSet at /
("Startup error, couldn't load ACCESS_CONTROL.ASKBOT_CLOSED_FORUM_MODE", None)
Request Method: GET
Request URL:    http://74.8.199.52:8222/
Django Version: 1.3.1
Exception Type: SettingNotSet
Exception Value:    
("Startup error, couldn't load ACCESS_CONTROL.ASKBOT_CLOSED_FORUM_MODE", None)
Exception Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/askbot-0.7.43-py2.5.egg/askbot/deps/livesettings/values.py in _value, line 340
Python Executable:  /usr/local/bin/python
Python Version: 2.5.2
Python Path:    
['/var/www/askbot-django',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/askbot-0.7.43-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django_threaded_multihost-1.4_1-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/South-0.7.6-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Coffin-0.3.7-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django_recaptcha_works-0.3.4-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/markdown2-2.1.0-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/lamson-1.1-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/akismet-0.2.0-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Jinja2-2.6-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pytz-2012g-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django_countries-1.0.5-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django_kombu-0.9.2-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/html5lib-0.90-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Django-1.3.1-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django_keyedcache-1.4_6-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django_robots-0.8.1-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django_celery-2.2.7-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pystache-0.3.1-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/python_openid-2.2.5-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/oauth2-1.5.211-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Unidecode-0.04.9-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django_followit-0.0.3-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/python_daemon-1.6-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/nose-1.2.1-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mock-1.0.0-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/chardet-2.1.1-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/celery-2.2.7-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django_picklefield-0.2.1-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/httplib2-0.7.6-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/lockfile-0.9.1-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/multiprocessing-2.6.2.1-py2.5-openbsd-4.3-amd64.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pyparsing-1.5.6-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/kombu-1.5.1-py2.5.egg',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/anyjson-0.3.3-py2 ...
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2012-10-24 10:50:03 -0500 answered a question Install Error: Can't download mock-1.0.0.zip

I had the same problem, and running setup again, it worked.

Can you provide an askbot distribution that includes all the dependencies already so users don't have to keep downloading them for each installation? Then you can also test that it works with those depedency versions...