Are There Known Problems With tkinter And VPS Servers?

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Sun, 27 Sep 2015 16:31:59 -0500, Tim Daneliuk writes:
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/local/TundraWare/bin/twander.py", line 5464, in <module>
>    UI = twanderUI(UIroot)
>  File "/usr/local/TundraWare/bin/twander.py", line 2152, in __init__
>    self.CmdBtn = Menubutton(self.mBar, text=COMMANDMENU, underline=0, state=DISABLED)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2710, in __init__
>    Widget.__init__(self, master, 'menubutton', cnf, kw)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1932, in __init__
>    (widgetName, self._w) + extra + self._options(cnf))
>_tkinter.TclError

You are getting a naked _tkinter.TclError?

When the problem is 'couldn't get to the X server' I am used to
getting
_tkinter.TclError: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable

and usually _tkinter is pretty good at giving you more information than
TclError.

The first thing I would do is to run:
python -m test -ugui test_tk test_ttk_guionly test_idle

which runs the tests for idle, and see if it finds anything suspicious.

Laura