Resource temporarily unavailable launching idle under cygwin

jcmendez jcmendez at gmail.com
Mon Aug 7 14:47:33 EDT 2006


Hello everyone.  Trying to run idle from a cygwin session on Win2k
(yuk, but I must)  I'm getting the following error message.   It seems
something more Windoze-driven that Python driven, and I'm not and don't
wanna be an expert on that OS.  Since the group has a good mix of users
in different platforms, perhaps someone can help.

Python runs fine, my programs run fine, and I can edit in vim and run
my code.  However, would be nice to have idle available from time to
time

Thanks in advance!!

$ idle
  23367 [main] python2.4 1668 C:\cygwin\bin\python2.4.exe: *** fatal
error - C:\
cygwin\bin\python2.4.exe: *** unable to remap C:\cygwin\bin\tk84.dll to
same add
ress as parent(0x18890000) != 0x18D20000
     18 [main] python2.4 2236 fork: child 1668 - died waiting for dll
loading, e
rrno 11
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/idle", line 5, in ?
    main()
  File "/tmp/python.340/usr/lib/python2.4/idlelib/PyShell.py", line
1361, in mai
n
  File "/tmp/python.340/usr/lib/python2.4/idlelib/PyShell.py", line
277, in open
_shell
  File "/tmp/python.340/usr/lib/python2.4/idlelib/PyShell.py", line
962, in begi
n
  File "/tmp/python.340/usr/lib/python2.4/idlelib/PyShell.py", line
372, in star
t_subprocess
  File "/tmp/python.340/usr/lib/python2.4/idlelib/PyShell.py", line
350, in spaw
n_subprocess
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/os.py", line 552, in spawnv
    return _spawnvef(mode, file, args, None, execv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/os.py", line 520, in _spawnvef
    pid = fork()
OSError: [Errno 11] Resource temporarily unavailable

As a sidenote, I sent twice this message as an email to
comp.lang.python at googlegroups.com as instructed on the group digests,
and it bounced immediately.  Did this method of posting change?

Thanks!

Juan C.




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