Motioneye: Motioneye 0.39.3 fail to startup - Ubuntu server 16.04LTS

[jjeliebenberg]

Hi there
When starting motioneye on Ubuntu 16.04LTS 64 bit server, it fails to start and I get the following error in the syslog:
Started motionEye Server.
Mar 5 16:34:59 servxxx meyectl[2192]: Traceback (most recent call last): Mar 5 16:34:59 servxxx meyectl[2192]: File "/usr/local/bin/meyectl", line 9, in <module> Mar 5 16:34:59 servxxx meyectl[2192]: load_entry_point('motioneye==0.39.3', 'console_scripts', 'meyectl')() Mar 5 16:34:59 servxxx meyectl[2192]: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/motioneye/meyectl.py", line 254, in main Mar 5 16:34:59 servxxx meyectl[2192]: import server Mar 5 16:34:59 servxxx meyectl[2192]: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/motioneye/server.py", line 28, in <module> Mar 5 16:34:59 servxxx meyectl[2192]: from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop Mar 5 16:34:59 servxxx meyectl[2192]: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/ioloop.py", line 67 Mar 5 16:34:59 servxxx meyectl[2192]: def fileno(self) -> int: Mar 5 16:34:59 servxxx meyectl[2192]: ^ Mar 5 16:34:59 servxxx meyectl[2192]: SyntaxError: invalid syntax Mar 5 16:34:59 servxxx systemd[1]: motioneye.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Mar 5 16:34:59 servxxx systemd[1]: motioneye.service: Unit entered failed state. Mar 5 16:34:59 servxxx systemd[1]: motioneye.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Any ideas how I can solve or fix this?
Thanks

[blackdot]

Same here. (16.04.6 64-bit)

systemd[1]: Started motionEye Server.
meyectl[16412]: Traceback (most recent call last):
meyectl[16412]: File "/usr/local/bin/meyectl", line 11, in
meyectl[16412]: sys.exit(main())
meyectl[16412]: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/motioneye/meyectl.py", line 254, in main
meyectl[16412]: import server
meyectl[16412]: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/motioneye/server.py", line 28, in
meyectl[16412]: from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop
meyectl[16412]: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/ioloop.py", line 67
meyectl[16412]: def fileno(self) -> int:
meyectl[16412]: ^
meyectl[16412]: SyntaxError: invalid syntax
systemd[1]: motioneye.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
systemd[1]: motioneye.service: Unit entered failed state.
systemd[1]: motioneye.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Any advice?
Thanks

[blackdot]

Not sure how it happened, but I had "tornado 6.0.1" on my system.

I uninstalled it
pip uninstall tornado
and then installed it again
pip install tornado

And now I have "tornado 5.1.1", motioneye is running now well!

[daniel-widrick]

Same issue as @blackdot uninstall/reinstall worked like a charm

Edit: Centos 7 here

[ccrisan]

Tornado 6.x no longer supports Python 2, so the solution is to use Tornado 5.x.

[jjeliebenberg]

Uninstalled tornado 6.0.1, but when 'pip install tornado' then it install 6.0.1 again.
What is the appropriate way to install tornado 5?
When trying 'pip install tornado-5.1.1' then get message 'No matching distribution found for tornado-5.1.1'

[jjeliebenberg]

Correct syntax is:
pip install tornado==5.1.1

[aihysp]

yep same issue
pip install tornado==5.1.1

did the trick