[Twisted-Python] Twisted, wxPython & Mac OS X 10.5 freezes
Hello everyone, I have written an application using Twisted, WX and I wanted to test it under Mac. I have successfully used it on linux and windows before. When I run it, I often get the pinwheel of death and then the whole OS locks up, even SSH no longer accepts connections, I have to hard reboot it. Has anyone ever witnessed this? Does anyone know/have an idea of what could cause this? I was wondering if it is not the twisted + wx integration that could cause this. Thank you, Gabriel
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Gabriel Rossetti < gabriel.rossetti@arimaz.com> wrote:
Without more detail it's impossible to say, but my guess would be "no". MacOS X is a preemptively multitasking, multi-user OS. The worst that Twisted and WX should be able to do, even maliciously, is to freeze the display for a single user. The worst that a bug should reasonably cause is to lock up the UI for a single process. You might have discovered a bug in MacOS X, and you should take it up with Apple. Alternately, your Mac hardware might be broken, and Twisted is interacting with its problems. If you'd like any further help here, though, a complete example program would be useful to anyone trying to help you.
Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
Hmm, well that is what I though but it really freezes up good. I changed my way of using wx & twisted, opted into using the normal reactor and having wx's mainloop in a seperate thread, this seams to work great on other platforms. I still get the lockup on Mac though but I think it's comming from my using pyserial on a bluetooth device. I have to investigate more but it's a bit hard too as I don't know how to provoke the lockup and I can't debug it once it does. I think it has nothing to do with wx nor twisted though. I will test it on other mac hardware and software asap. Thanks for your advice, Gabriel
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Gabriel Rossetti < gabriel.rossetti@arimaz.com> wrote:
Without more detail it's impossible to say, but my guess would be "no". MacOS X is a preemptively multitasking, multi-user OS. The worst that Twisted and WX should be able to do, even maliciously, is to freeze the display for a single user. The worst that a bug should reasonably cause is to lock up the UI for a single process. You might have discovered a bug in MacOS X, and you should take it up with Apple. Alternately, your Mac hardware might be broken, and Twisted is interacting with its problems. If you'd like any further help here, though, a complete example program would be useful to anyone trying to help you.
Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
Hmm, well that is what I though but it really freezes up good. I changed my way of using wx & twisted, opted into using the normal reactor and having wx's mainloop in a seperate thread, this seams to work great on other platforms. I still get the lockup on Mac though but I think it's comming from my using pyserial on a bluetooth device. I have to investigate more but it's a bit hard too as I don't know how to provoke the lockup and I can't debug it once it does. I think it has nothing to do with wx nor twisted though. I will test it on other mac hardware and software asap. Thanks for your advice, Gabriel
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