Bugs item #1542949, was opened at 2006-08-19 03:51 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by ronaldoussoren You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1542949&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: IDLE Group: Python 2.5 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 6 Submitted By: David Strozzi (dstrozzi) Assigned to: Ronald Oussoren (ronaldoussoren) Summary: idle in python 2.5c1 freezes on macos 10.3.9 Initial Comment: Hi, I installed python 2.5b3 on a powerbook ppc laptop running macos 10.3.9 a few days ago. python and idle worked. Now I installed 2.5c1. python works fine from a terminal. When I start idle, it loads, puts up its menu bar, opens a shell window, displays usual startup info, and gives me a prompt. But, I can't type or get a cursor. Whenever I move the mouse over the idle window or menu bar, I get a spinning color wheel and can't do anything. I deleted the whole /library/python tree, reinstalled 2.5c1, and exactly the same thing happened. Oh, and I rebooted :) Not sure what is happening, or how to diagnose. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Ronald Oussoren (ronaldoussoren) Date: 2006-09-14 23:10 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=580910 The scary bit is that the bug was "fixed" due to unclear differences between the build environment used for 2.5c1 and 2.5c2. I'll be building 2.5final as well, so expect this will stay fixed but I'm not entirely happy due to not knowing what caused the failure in the first place. It looks like 2.5c1 was build with a slighly different version of GCC (although both machines has Xcode 2.3 installed). BTW. The issue still exists for 2.4.x, I hope to work on the 2.4 branch this weekend. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: David Strozzi (dstrozzi) Date: 2006-09-14 23:03 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1056922 I just installed python 2.5 rc 2, and IDLE works! On the same 10.3.9 laptop which prompted me to post this bug. I guess the other who had problems should try rc2, and may this bug had been laid to rest. Thanks to whomever fixed it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: diggableme (diggableme) Date: 2006-09-09 19:18 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1594326 I am a new user that is experiencing the same exact problem. I have OSX.3.9 and everytime I start IDLE, it freezes and the colorwheel somes up. When I view the console output, there are no errors or alert messages. I have also tried uninstalling and re-installing from the beginning with the same result. I have been using the instructions given at this site: http://www.python.org/download/mac/ desp I'm very interested to see if there is in fact a resolution to this problem. I'm at my wit's end. -dig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Ronald Oussoren (ronaldoussoren) Date: 2006-08-28 18:59 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=580910 I've created a new installer from the head of the release25-maint branch and that works correctly. I'm keeping this issue open because I want to investigate why 2.5c1 doesn't work while the current head of the 2.5 branch does work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: David Strozzi (dstrozzi) Date: 2006-08-28 17:48 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1056922 Well, if there's anything I can do as a 10.3.9 user to test this, let me know. Too busy to delve into the python source code though... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Ronald Oussoren (ronaldoussoren) Date: 2006-08-28 17:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=580910 I can reproduce this on 10.3.9: IDLE starts and opens the interactive window, but then completely blocks (spinning cursor). If I start IDLE from the commandline (/Applications/MacPython\ 2.5/ IDLE.app/Contents/MacOS/IDLE) I get a message about 'console' not being a valid command name. That requires further looking into, but is a red herring for this particular problem, removing the Tk-console hiding code in macosxSupport.py results in the same behaviour, without any further output on the console as well. Upgrading aquatk to the latest version (8.4.10.0) on tcltkaqua.sf.net didn't help, IDLE still hangs (Duh, that's because there's a /System/Library/ Frameworks/Tk.framework, which means a user install won't be used for IDLE). The problem is also unrelated to my IDLE.app work, the same problem occurs when starting $prefix/lib/python2.5/idlelib/idle.py. According to gdb the IDLE process is handing in a semaphore call inside the Tcl mainloop. Time to get into serious debugging mode I guess :-( BTW. IDLE does work correctly on a 10.4.7 system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Kurt B. Kaiser (kbk) Date: 2006-08-28 15:59 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=149084 Maybe priority should be higher? Hopefully Ronald has time to look at this; I don't have access to a Mac. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1542949&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
