subprocess problem in cygwin with Tkinter

AdSR artur_spruce at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 5 04:44:32 EST 2006


Stewart Midwinter wrote:
> [...]
> I'm using this version of Cygwin:
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 Mulata 1.5.18(0.132/4/2) 2005-07-02 20:30 i686 unknown unknown Cyg
> win
> [...]
> When I run the same command in a Tkinter app, I get an exception:
>
> smidwint at Mulata /cygdrive/c/programs/pipeworksb/lib/python/popt
> $ python test_subprocess.py
> d:\cygwin\bin\python2.4.exe (7752): *** unable to remap d:\cygwin\bin\tk84.dll t
> o same address as parent(0x18C40000) != 0x18C50000
>       9 [main] python 4696 fork_parent: child 7752 died waiting for dll loading
> [...]
> any ideas?

This is a dll problem that sometimes happens in Cygwin. Run 'rebaseall'
to fix this.

HTH,
AdSR




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