[Pythonmac-SIG] debugging bus error on launch [py2app]

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Jun 9, 2011, at 19:02, Jeffrey O'Neill <jeff.oneill at openstv.org> wrote:

> I figured out what was causing my bus error.  In my setup.py file, I have
> 
> setup(
>     ...
>     version = v,
>     ...)
> 
> If v is a string or int then everything works fine.  If v is a list or tuple then you get the bus error I reported.
> 
> Clearly my fault, but would be nice to get a better error message. :)  I don't know if this would be done in setuptools or py2app.
> 
> Thanks everyone for your help.

Thank you for telling us the solution.  Py2app should have given an error message about an invalid version instead of stuffing it in the application bundle.

Ronald

> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Jeffrey O'Neill <jeff.oneill at openstv.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> Another option to get more information, could you run:
> 
> $ DYLD_PRINT_LIBRARIES=1 /dist/OpenSTV.app/Contents/MacOS/OpenSTV
> 
> This will print the libraries that get loaded, and might provide insight in what's going on.
> 
> Also: what GUI libraries do you use? Can you reproduce the issue in a smaller program that you can share?  The latter would allow me to debug the issue on my machine.
> 
> I set the environment var and this is what I get:
> 
> $ ./dist/OpenSTV.app/Contents/MacOS/OpenSTV 
> dyld: loaded: /Users/joneill/OpenSTV/OpenSTV/./dist/OpenSTV.app/Contents/MacOS/OpenSTV
> dyld: loaded: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
> dyld: loaded: /usr/lib/libauto.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /usr/lib/libicucore.A.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib
> Bus error
>  
> This doesn't enlighten me, but perhaps it will give others an idea...
> 
> The only GUI library I use is WxPython.  I'll work on creating a smaller test case for debugging purposes.
> 
> To respond to Chris's question, I delete build and dist in my setup.py using this:
> 
>     # Remove the build and dist folders
>     shutil.rmtree("build", ignore_errors=True)
>     shutil.rmtree("dist", ignore_errors=True)
> so that I never forget!
> 
> 
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