path errors (resolved by reinstalling django)

I'm stuck at Step 2 (Database).

I've tried explicitly setting DJANGOSETTINGSMODULE to "osqa.settings" to no avail.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Here's the error output:

(from the osqa dir) $ python manage.py syncdb Traceback (most recent call last): File "manage.py", line 4, in <module> import settings # Assumed to be in the same directory. File "/home/larubin/djangoprojects/osqa/settings.py", line 60, in <module> from settingslocal import * File "/home/larubin/djangoprojects/osqa/settingslocal.py", line 78, in <module> from forum.settings import * File "/home/larubin/djangoprojects/osqa/forum/settings/init.py", line 3, in <module> from forms import ImageFormWidget File "/home/larubin/djangoprojects/osqa/forum/settings/forms.py", line 2, in <module> from django import forms File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/forms/init.py", line 17, in <module> from models import * File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/forms/models.py", line 6, in <module> from django.db import connections File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/init.py", line 14, in <module> if not settings.DATABASES: File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 281, in getattr self.setup() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/conf/init.py", line 38, in _setup raise ImportError("Settings cannot be imported, because environment variable %s is undefined." % ENVIRONMENTVARIABLE) ImportError: Settings cannot be imported, because environment variable DJANGOSETTINGSMODULE is undefined. Error: Can't find the file 'settings.py' in the directory containing 'manage.py'. It appears you've customized things. You'll have to run django-admin.py, passing it your settings module. (If the file settings.py does indeed exist, it's causing an ImportError somehow.)