Jason Tishler wrote: > Dave, > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 09:42:48AM +0000, David J. Braden wrote: >> Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>> * David J. Braden (2006-09-12 18:35 +0100) >>>> I can run Python in command-line mode fine from the cygwin shell; >>>> the cygwin distribution also includes IDLE, which is apparently >>>> completely installed, yet I am unable to get IDLE running. When I >>>> double-click idle.bat (or idle.pyw) I am prompted to locate the >>>> program's creator. Darn if I know what it is. If I try to invoke >>>> IDLE from cygwen bash, I get "unable to remap >>>> c:\cygwin\bin\tk84.dll to same address as parent". >>> rebaseall >>> >> [snip] >> >> Thanks, Thorsten. I assume you mean type in "idle rebaseall" (?) - >> seems to bring up a window for a split second, then come back with >> same error messages I had before. I cannot find in the IDLE doc any >> reference on how to get it going under cygwin; could you please point >> me towards a less-than-terse set of instructions? > > Here's another terse response: > > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=unable+remap+same+address+parent&btnG=Google+Search > > :,) > > The following are excerpts from the rebase README: > > The rebaseall utility is a convenient way for users that suffer from > the Cygwin rebase problem to rebase their entire system (i.e., all > of their DLLs). The following is a list of known Cygwin > applications that are affected by the rebase problem: > > Apache > Perl > Python > > The rebase problem is due to fork() failing when it is unable to > load DLLs in the child at the same address as in the parent. This > is caused by DLLs which have conflicting base addresses. An error > message like the following will be displayed when the problem is > triggered: > > C:\cygwin\bin\python.exe: *** unable to remap C:\cygwin\bin\cygssl.dll > to same address as parent(0xDF0000) != 0xE00000 > > Use the following procedure to rebase your entire system: > > 1. shutdown all Cygwin processes and services > 2. start ash (do not use bash or rxvt) > 3. execute /bin/rebaseall (in the ash window) > > BTW, idle has problems running under Cygwin Python: > > http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=786827&group_id=5470 > > Jason >
Thanks, Jason. Your first cite cracked me up. I can now confirm that, yes, IDLE pops up w/o menus under cygwin. Sheesh. Onward... Regards, DaveB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list