Bug 613098 - pydoc3 -g crashes because Tcl/Tk lacks thread support
Summary: pydoc3 -g crashes because Tcl/Tk lacks thread support
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: tcltk
Version: 13
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Dave Malcolm
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-07-09 17:10 UTC by Steve Chapel
Modified: 2011-06-01 14:22 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-06-01 14:22:19 UTC
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Description Steve Chapel 2010-07-09 17:10:27 UTC
Description of problem:
Typing the command 'pydoc3 -g' at the command prompt terminates with an exception thrown.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pydoc3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type the command 'pydoc3 -g' at the command prompt.
  
Actual results:
The command terminates with an exception thrown.

Expected results:
The GUI for pydoc3 starts.

Additional info:

Here is the stack trace:

Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.1/threading.py", line 516, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.1/threading.py", line 469, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.1/pydoc.py", line 2047, in serve
    DocServer(port, callback).serve_until_quit()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.1/pydoc.py", line 2029, in __init__
    self.base.__init__(self, self.address, self.handler)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.1/socketserver.py", line 401, in __init__
    self.server_activate()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.1/pydoc.py", line 2040, in server_activate
    if self.callback: self.callback(self)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.1/pydoc.py", line 2130, in ready
    text='Python documentation server at\n' + server.url)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.1/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1193, in configure
    return self._configure('configure', cnf, kw)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.1/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1184, in _configure
    self.tk.call(_flatten((self._w, cmd)) + self._options(cnf))
_tkinter.TclError: out of stack space (infinite loop?)

Comment 1 Henry Kroll 2010-10-23 20:20:30 UTC
This is because Fedora's tkinter and python3-tkinter were compiled without thread support. Why? Who knows? http://bugs.python.org/issue3835

Comment 2 Henry Kroll 2010-10-23 21:13:03 UTC
My bad, I meant Tcl/Tk lacks thread support.

From python.spec

# Removes the "-g" option from "pydoc", for some reason; I believe
# (dmalcolm 2010-01-29) that this was introduced in this change:
# - fix pydoc (#68082)
# in 2.2.1-12 as a response to the -g option needing TkInter installed
# (Red Hat Linux 8)
# Not upstream
Patch1: Python-2.2.1-pydocnogui.patch

Regular pydoc -g doesn't work either. It looks like their response was to remove the -g option. Hardly a fix, if you ask me. I'm going to see if I can download the src.rpm for tk and maybe tcl and enable threads.

Comment 3 Henry Kroll 2010-10-23 21:30:02 UTC
Downloaded tcl-8.5.8-2.fc14.src.rpm
Opened tcl.spec
Changed --disable-threads to --enable-threads
$ rpmbuild -bb tcl.spec

both working now

Comment 4 Steve Chapel 2010-11-06 17:25:06 UTC
How should I go about getting this bug fixed? Should I change the component to Tcl/Tk and request that it be built with thread support?

Comment 5 Steve Chapel 2010-11-11 15:50:17 UTC
Moving to component tcltk because lack of thread support in Tcl/Tk is causing the problem in pydoc3.

Comment 6 Steve Chapel 2011-05-14 13:24:20 UTC
It looks like this problem is fixed in Fedora 14.

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