I have experienced the same problem. Yet I do not have a windows/cygwin machine here to debug it. Can you help us and figure out exactly where in gluon/widget.py it gets stuck?
On Thursday, 29 August 2013 08:04:26 UTC-5, Razvan Teslaru wrote: > > Update: I managed to trace execution in web2py.py until "import > gluon.widget" -- execution doesn't continue in web2py.py after that line, > but again, no error message. > > On Thursday, August 29, 2013 12:00:20 AM UTC+2, Razvan Teslaru wrote: >> >> Trying to run web2py under cygwin. Python 2.7.5 installed, plus all >> necessary dependencies. >> >> Downloaded and unzipped web2py_src.zip; when running ./web2py, it hangs >> for a few seconds and then exits, without any message. Initially I thought >> it might attempt (and fail) to spawn the GUI to get a password, but >> starting it with -a 'passwd' yields the same behavior. >> >> Tried uninstalling the cygwin python and using the regular Windows python >> under Cygwin -- now it works as expected, so it appears to be a Cygwin >> Python + web2py specific issue, but I'm not sure how to proceed from here, >> without any sort of error message. >> > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
