[Pythonmac-SIG] "Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Get: no current thread"

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 1, 2005, at 11:10 PM, Richard Jones wrote:


> I've just switched from running py2app with -A to not using it. After 
> fleshing out the "includes" option so that my required modules were 
> included, I finallly got the app to start up. It promptly quits, with 
> the following message:
>
> Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Get: no current thread
> Abort trap
>
> My app is a simple GUI thing which controls Zope through the 
> zdaemon.zdctl module. It's attached. The Zope libs (and some 
> supporting libs) are installed in the app's Resources folder in a 
> "runtime" subdirectory (historical name, will eventually change to 
> Zope ;)
>
> As I mentioned, this works OK when I invoke py2app with -A but it 
> breaks when I run it for real.
>
> I'm not using threads in my app, but Zope does use threads when it's 
> running. The invocation of the zdaemon.zdctl code should not create 
> any threads that I'm aware of. I'm currently working through a process 
> of elimination to see whether I can narrow down to a particular 
> suspect.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what might cause this?

Could be a lot of things.  I can't really start to guess unless I can 
see it.

-bob