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Gene Hilton (genehilton) wrote : Re: [Bug 305211] Re: segmentation fault on pmw dialog activate

I am not sure it's this simple. I tried following the suggestion to
downgrade to intrepids blt. This downgrading fixes the dialog activate bug
- I tried it, but does not fix the BLT bugs. A simpler test case that
segfaults is

import Pmw
a=Pmw.Blt.Vector(1)

I think there is more going on here.

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Bug Watch Updater <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> ** Changed in: blt (Debian)
> Status: Unknown => New
>
> --
> segmentation fault on pmw dialog activate
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/305211
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> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in “python-pmw” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
> Status in “blt” source package in Debian: New
>
> Bug description:
> Pmw.Dialog segfaults on activate() method.
>
> Example from /usr/share/doc/python-pmw-doc/examples/Dialog.py
> (python-pmw-doc package) causes segfault.
>
> This seems to be tkinter problem because segfault actually happens on:
>
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Pmw/Pmw_1_3/lib/PmwBlt.py(57)busy_hold()
> -> window.tk.call(_busyCommand, 'hold', window._w)
>