Pymacs Helper Did Not Start After 30 Seconds

I've seen other questions on this, but none of them were actually answered, and none of them are quite my issue. I have a new system, emacs 23.1, Centos 6.2 (I think). I downloaded

Solution 1:

AFAIK that error occurs if an older pymacs.el gets loaded. Check if such a thing might be in your path still.

In case the trouble persists, get Pymacs inlined with python-mode:

bzr branch lp:python-mode/components-python-mode

Solution 2:

The author of Pymacs states that it is a problem related to an old version of python-mode.el which loads its own copy of Pymacs. He proposes two different solutions (see here):

1) Comment out the python-mode initialisation (I guess pymacs loads it then) 2) Set the variable py-load-pymacs-p to nil

If I recall correctly the second fix doesn't work for my emacs but the first one does. Also it might be necessary to update your version of Pymacs, as far as I know it is developed on github now, thus you can use the version found in the above repo.