yet another pymacs helper did not start within 30 seconds (but with more debug)

Question

I have followed this guide, and consulted these existing stackoverflow questions:

• Pymacs helper did not start after 30 seconds
• Windows 8 + Emacs 24.3 + emacs-for-python: Pymacs helper did not start within 30 seconds

But unfortunately, these did not solve my problem. So, I've posted this question with more detail on my error.

Following the debug information emacs provides, I ran with --debug-init, and here are the results.

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Pymacs helper did not start within 30 seconds")
  signal(error ("Pymacs helper did not start within 30 seconds"))
  pymacs-report-error("Pymacs helper did not start within %d seconds" 30)
  pymacs-start-services()
  pymacs-serve-until-reply("eval" (pymacs-print-for-apply (quote "pymacs_load_helper") (quote ("ropemacs" "rope-" nil))))
  pymacs-call("pymacs_load_helper" "ropemacs" "rope-" nil)
  pymacs-load("ropemacs" "rope-")
  eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/mittenchops/.emacs.d/init.el" nil t)  ; Reading at buffer position 1936
  load-with-code-conversion("/home/mittenchops/.emacs.d/init.el" "/home/mittenchops/.emacs.d/init.el" t t)
  load("/home/mittenchops/.emacs.d/init" t t)
  #[0 "\205\262

My init.el is linked here.

I've installed rope, ropemacs, pymacs, etc., but am still getting this error. I find further that pymacs seems to be unsuccessful in being imported in python in general:

>>> import Pymacs
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named Pymacs

But this is bizarre, because:

$ git clone https://github.com/pinard/Pymacs.git 
$ sudo pip install -e Pymacs

installs successfully!

Answer 1

Ah, nevermind, I forgot to build the repo.

$ python setup.py build
$ python setup.py install