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TL;DR

Pin bcrypt to 4.0.1 (with passlib 1.7.4), which the maintainer and multiple users confirmed resolves it.

Steps

  1. Issue langflow-ai/langflow#1173 (closed, 21 comments): Describe the bug Trying to start langflow using the "python -m langflow" command after installing it in a conda environment on Windows 10 x64 results in the following error message: [image] ``` [12/04/23 17:49:31] INFO 2023-12-04 17:49:31 - INFO - manager - Alembic not initialized manager.py:140 INFO 2023-12-04 17:49:31 - INFO - manager - Initializing alembic manager.py:121 INFO 2023-12-04 17:49:31 - INFO - manager - Alembic initialized manager.py:126 INFO 2023-12-04 17:49:31 - INFO - manager - Running DB migrations in manager.py:149 [the user's home directory]
  2. If starting langflow fails with '(trapped) error reading bcrypt version', it is a passlib/bcrypt version incompatibility, not your code. Pin bcrypt to 4.0.1 (with passlib 1.7.4), which the maintainer and multiple users confirmed resolves it.

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Versions

Versions mentioned in the source: 4.0.1, passlib 1.7.4. If you are on something much newer or older, the details may have shifted.

Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

Sources

  • https://github.com/langflow-ai/langflow/issues/1173
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