New info: The problem is not related to the specific program - it is definitely a build problem, as the following test shows: Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Apr 28 2009, 17:38:15) [GCC 4.2.3] on hp-ux11 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import threading >>> threading._test() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 952, in _test t.start() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 471, in start _start_new_thread(self.__bootstrap, ()) thread.error: can't start new thread >>>
The compiler I used was GCC 4.2.3 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list