[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2011-03-08 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily n...@acm.org added the comment: Now that ActiveState has released a version of Tcl/Tk 8.5 (8.5.9.2) for Mac OS X that is also an Aqua Cocoa Tk (like the Apple-supplied Tk 8.5.7 in 10.6) and supports 64-bit, versions of Python linked with the new ActiveTcl 8.5.9 do not display the

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2010-12-30 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: According to Ronald (msg92914) and Ned (msg92923) this particular issue is 2.6 only (and fixed in 2.7 because of patches not backported). 2.6 is in security fix only mode. So unless someone claims that this is a security issue (and Barry

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2010-10-20 Thread Ronald Oussoren
Ronald Oussoren ronaldousso...@mac.com added the comment: Richard: I don't understand your message. What abort are you talking about? -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue6864

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2010-10-20 Thread Richard
Richard pub...@careaga.net added the comment: Sorry to be obscure, Ronald. I mistook my configuration problem, described below for the original problem. But I can reproduce the problem with opening an existing file under IDLE, which is a segmentation fault. When opening a new window, I get a

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2010-08-07 Thread Richard
Richard pub...@careaga.net added the comment: I'm thinking that the Snow Leopard abort trap when invoking IDLE from the command line is a permissions problem somewhere because it works ok when invoked with sudo. The console displays an odd message 2010-08-07 20:38:23.375 Python[25858:170b]

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2009-09-21 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily n...@acm.org added the comment: I also can verify that the problem is not reproducible using a current trunk (2.7) and the 10.6 Apple Tk 8.5.7. Further testing of this issue with both Apple Tk 8.4.x and ActiveState Tk 8.4.19 on 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6 has been hang-free. It looks

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2009-09-20 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily n...@acm.org added the comment: Here's a status update: After testing 2.6.3-pre-rc1 with various combinations of Apple and ActiveState Tk 8.4 and 8.5 on 10.5 and 10.6, so far I have only seen the new window hang problem with Apple's Tk 10.5 (10.5.7) as supplied with 10.6 Snow

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2009-09-20 Thread Kevin Walzer
Kevin Walzer wordt...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: I don't understand the logic of saying that IDLE in Python 2.6.3 will not support Tk 8.5 in any fashion when you say that it runs fine with ActiveState Tk 8.5. 8.4 is obsolete. The new window hang bug is specific to the version of

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2009-09-20 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily n...@acm.org added the comment: @Kevin: I didn't say it runs fine with ActiveState TK 8.5.7; that's what the other serious issues refer to. I need to do some more work to isolate those problems. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2009-09-20 Thread Ronald Oussoren
Ronald Oussoren ronaldousso...@mac.com added the comment: I agree that we should mention in the news file that Apple's version of Tk 8.5 in Snow Leopard causes problems with IDLE. W.r.t. Tk 8.4 vs. 8.5: the 2.6 binary releases will be linked to Tk 8.4 because of two reasons. Firstly all 2.6

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2009-09-20 Thread Ronald Oussoren
Ronald Oussoren ronaldousso...@mac.com added the comment: To explain my previous entry about shipping 8.4 and 8.5 versions of _tkinter, one way to implement this is: * Build two copies of _tkinter.so: _tkinter84.so and _tkinter85.so * Add _tkinter.py to Lib/plat-mac with the following

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2009-09-20 Thread Ronald Oussoren
Ronald Oussoren ronaldousso...@mac.com added the comment: The problem is *not* reproducible using the trunk (2.7). I haven't been able to isolate the change that fixes the issue. As a quick hack I replaced _tkinter.so and Lib/idlelib/*.py in a 2.6 tree by the same files from the trunk. That

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2009-09-20 Thread Ronald Oussoren
Ronald Oussoren ronaldousso...@mac.com added the comment: I'm re-prioritizing this as high because the binary installer won't suffer from this issue and there is no straightforward bugfix. -- priority: release blocker - high ___ Python tracker

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2009-09-16 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
Barry A. Warsaw ba...@python.org added the comment: I'm willing to leave this as a release blocker for 2.6.3, but I will re-evaluate it if no progress is made on it. -- nosy: +barry ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2009-09-16 Thread darkspork
darkspork cjd.d01...@gmail.com added the comment: I can confirm this as well. It also locks up when pasting text. The EDIT menu retains its glow, and the pasted text appears after a few seconds, along with another blank square window titled idle. Idle then locks up. Using the scrollbar in any

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2009-09-16 Thread Kevin Walzer
Kevin Walzer wordt...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: The bug with the edit menu sounds like the same issues I noted in http://bugs.python.org/issue6463. I think it was related to something in Tk-Cocoa 8.5, which was resolved in a later build of Tk, and which is why I closed the bug.

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2009-09-16 Thread Ronald Oussoren
Ronald Oussoren ronaldousso...@mac.com added the comment: kevin: do you know if there is a plain Tcl script that shows the bug? If there is we can file a bugreport with Apple that clearly shows a problem in the Tk framework and hence makes it more likely that the issue will get fixed.

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2009-09-16 Thread Kevin Walzer
Kevin Walzer wordt...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: Ronald: No, unfortunately I was never able to reproduce the bug in pure Tcl. I tried various examples with the Tk text widget. I also tried various examples with the text widget via Tkinter. Each time the text widget, cutting,

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2009-09-15 Thread Ronald Oussoren
Changes by Ronald Oussoren ronaldousso...@mac.com: -- priority: - release blocker ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue6864 ___ ___

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2009-09-08 Thread dpogg1
New submission from dpogg1 dan.po...@gmail.com: IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6 when running using Apple's built-in version of Python (also 2.6.1) when creating a new buffer window or attempting to run/debug an existing file. -- assignee: ronaldoussoren components: IDLE, Macintosh

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2009-09-08 Thread dpogg1
dpogg1 dan.po...@gmail.com added the comment: I can confirm this is the same issue. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue6864 ___ ___

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2009-09-08 Thread Ronald Oussoren
Ronald Oussoren ronaldousso...@mac.com added the comment: If I understand you correctly the same also happens with the current version in subversion. To reproduce: * Start IDLE.app * Open a new window The new window opens, but (1) without a proper titlebar, and (2) this makes it impossible