[Idle-dev] IDLE freezing/hanging

[tpc at csua.berkeley.edu]

hi all, I just wanted to reiterate Gregoire Dooms' observations.  I also
seem to notice freezing/hanging directly after typing quickly.  It
happened to me twice within 48 hours, yesterday typing arrow keys quickly,
today while 'Alt-P'ing quickly to scroll through command history.  I
made sure before the hangs to apt-get update to latest IDLE and tk in
case I got another IDLE freeze:

"apt-get update" on 05APR2005
(using .../idle-python2.3_2.3.5-2_all.deb)
Setting up python2.3-tk (2.3.5-2)

I am running gnome on Debian.

On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Gr=E9goire Dooms wrote:

> Nope, that process (zombie) then shows up in ps as:
> [python2.3] <defunct>
>
> >If it doesn't, that points to a problem with Tk.  Does it happen while
> >you're typing quickly, or will it freeze while you're having lunch?
> >
> >
> >
> As I stated before, it tends to happen when typing quickly (arrow keys
> last time).
>
> I'm currently using KDE (because I'm too lazy to get fvwm2 configured to
> my tastes),
> I used to use ion a lot while in programming-intensive periods of my life=
=2E
>
> I believe this could be related to a bug in tk8.4 (8.4.7-1) I'll upgrade
> now to 8.4.9-1 and see if the bug disappears.
> I'll report again next time the bug appears.
> If you have any info meanwhile...
>
> Regards,
> --
> Gr=E9goire Dooms
>
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