Idle 2.3.4 on Red Hat 9 segmentation fault

Ron Kneusel oneelkruns at hotmail.com
Mon Jul 5 07:41:36 EDT 2004


Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter at gmail.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.382.1088867054.27577.python-list at python.org>...
> On 3 Jul 2004 05:06:35 -0700, Ron Kneusel <oneelkruns at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I've installed Python 2.3.4 on Red Hat 9 and everything seems to be
> > working fine.  Tkinter is available and I can run GUI scripts.
> > 
> > However, when I try to start Idle I get a segmentation fault.  Using
> > GDB and loading the idle script by hand:
>  
> > "Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > [Switching to Thread 1074892416 (LWP 2870)]
> > 0x407a3c6c in Tcl_FindExecutable () from /usr/lib/libtcl8.3.so"
> > 
> > Is anyone else seeing this sort of thing?
> 
> I don't recall seeing anything like this. What did you do when
> building with respect to the RH9 disaster of Unicode-borked Tcl? Did
> you try the fixed Tcl/Tk RPMs that I posted (see the release notes for
> more)

I just downloaded and installed the fixed Tcl/Tk RPMs you created and
now Idle runs just fine.  Thanks!

Ron



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