Ah hah! It was the crazy opencog config file!

It was the root cause of all of the failed module loads!

Author: linas

scripts/opencog.conf

@@ -68,18 +68,8 @@ ANSI_ENABLED	       = true
 # Cogserver in OSX will automatically change .so extension to .dylib
 # if .so exists.
 MODULES               = opencog/modules/libbuiltinreqs.so,
-                        opencog/modules/libnlp-types.so,
-#                        opencog/learning/pln/libPLNTypes.so,
-#                        opencog/dynamics/attention/libattention-types.so,
-                        opencog/modules/libPersistModule.so,
-                        opencog/modules/libQueryModule.so,
                         opencog/modules/libscheme-shell.so,
-                        opencog/modules/libPythonModule.so,
-                        opencog/modules/libpy-shell.so,
-                        opencog/modules/libLGDictModule.so,
-                        opencog/modules/libSuRealModule.so,
-#                        opencog/dynamics/attention/libattention.so,
-                        opencog/modules/libRuleEngineModule.so
+                        opencog/modules/libpy-shell.so
 
 # Optional modules, not enabled by default
 #                        opencog/modules/benchmark/libbenchmark.so,
@@ -88,36 +78,6 @@ MODULES               = opencog/modules/libbuiltinreqs.so,
 #                        opencog/learning/dimensionalembedding/libdimensionalembedding.so
 #                        opencog/viterbi/libviterbi.so
 
-# Load order of the SCM modules:
-# First, the user-defined config file.
-# Next, all the atom type definition files.
-# Next, the system-wide utilities.
-# Finally, any code specific to various subsystems.
-# All this mostly in alphabetical order; however, it would be best
-# to have a load order where things got defined before they got used.
-SCM_PRELOAD           = scm/config.scm,
-                        scm/core_types.scm,
-                        scm/spacetime/spacetime_types.scm,
-                        scm/nlp/types/nlp_types.scm,
-                        scm/dynamics/attention/attention_types.scm,
-                        scm/utilities.scm,
-                        scm/apply.scm,
-                        scm/file-utils.scm,
-                        # scm/repl-shell.scm,
-                        scm/av-tv.scm,
-                        scm/nlp/scm/type-definitions.scm,
-                        scm/nlp/scm/config.scm,
-                        scm/nlp/scm/file-utils.scm,
-                        scm/nlp/scm/nlp-utils.scm,
-                        scm/nlp/scm/disjunct-list.scm,
-                        scm/nlp/scm/processing-utils.scm,
-                        scm/nlp/relex2logic/utilities.scm,
-                        scm/nlp/relex2logic/rule-helpers.scm,
-                        scm/nlp/relex2logic/post-processing.scm,
-                        scm/nlp/lg-dict/utilities.scm,
-                        scm/nlp/sureal/surface-realization.scm
-#                        viterbi/viterbi_types.scm
-
 # Uncomment if Python extensions are not stored in these locations,
 # or the binary and source directories:
 #     /usr/local/share/opencog/python

src/btree-eva.scm

@@ -51,17 +51,18 @@
 ; Load the chat modules.
 ;
 (use-modules (opencog nlp))
-(use-modules (opencog nlp chatbot-eva))
 
 ; XXX remove the below when we get a chance.
 ; Must load the rulebase before running eva; see bug
 ; https://github.com/opencog/opencog/issues/2021 for details
 ; XXX fixme -- we should not need to load either relex2logic or
 ; the rules right here, since the code in this module does not depend
 ; directly on thes.
-(use-modules (opencog nlp relex2logic))
+; (use-modules (opencog nlp relex2logic))
 ; (load-r2l-rulebase)
 
+(use-modules (opencog nlp chatbot-eva))
+
 ; ---------------------------------------------------------
 ; Run the hacky garbage collection loop.
 (run-behavior-tree-gc)

src/self-model.scm

@@ -37,8 +37,11 @@
 (use-modules (opencog) (opencog query) (opencog exec))
 (use-modules (opencog atom-types))
 
-; XXX the below does not really belong here; where does it belong?
-(use-modules (opencog nlp chatbot-eva)) ; Needed for process-query
+; XXX the nlp chatbot-eva does not really belong here; where does it belong?
+; We need process-query, but this load-modules results in a circular
+; dependency.
+; (use-modules (opencog nlp chatbot-eva)) ; Needed for process-query
+
 
 ; ------------------------------------------------------
 ; State variables